The Borland StarTeam 12.0 suite of change management tools increases and extends interoperability of application life cycle management (ALM) tools and asset types across software development teams.
This helps to overcome traditional development barriers such as lack of cross-tool visibility and inefficient collaboration and provides management with real-time updates and a single source of ‘truth’ across any combination of ALM systems and tools.
The product extends support of several ALM asset types, including version controlled files, customisable change requests, tasks, requirements and threaded discussions. This results in access to a larger and potentially more valuable repository. By making it easier to extend the types of software assets that can be managed, organisations can better shape their ALM environment to meet their unique development tool landscape and methodology needs.
The included Borland connector for Tasktop adds ALM tool certification and interoperability, making it possible for a more diverse group of ALM practitioners to participate and contribute to the developer’s work scope.
Developers and their code are automatically connected to change management assets or other third-party tools from within the Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs, enabling teams to fully participate in the flow of software delivery to end users. Developers are able to stay in their IDE where they are most productive, but still participate in the processes and workflows that management needs.
Available for both Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync, the connector enables complete synchronisation of ALM servers from multiple vendors and open source projects to provide a consolidated view, bringing them into the same unified presentation as native StarTeam artifacts.
Real-time synchronisation, configurable automatic conflict resolution and support for the tracking and reporting faclilities of more than 24 ALM tools is supported by the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM interoperability framework.