Archive for the ‘R&D Reporter’ Category

ClearCase 9.0 was finally released last week, giving me the opportunity to install it, see how it works and make sure that our complementary add-on tools are working seamlessly with this brand-new version! These are my insights so far: Installing new VOB server and clients on Windows is quite easy and straight-forward. You can also […]

Summer vacations are almost upon us, and we have some interesting news and a limited time offer.   We have a new name: ALMtoolbox We have renamed our company  to ALMtoolbox, since at the end of the day we provide a variety of solutions and tools centered around ALM, which stands for Application Life-cycle Management. […]

We’re proud to announce the new version! Visual Annotate helps you drill down into the history of any code line in a file within ClearCase. This tool can be very useful for saving the time and effort of developers, system integrators and release managers who work with ClearCase. The tool is provided with a floating […]

  Participate in our survey and you could win a $50 donation to your preferred charity organization! As you may know, we supply add-on tools that provide development insights and analytics for many ClearCase users (see R&D Reporter and Visual Annotate). Over the last few years we have provided “Lines of Code” metrics, reports and […]

We will soon release a new query type as part of our R&D Reporter add-on tool! The new query gets a view path as an input, and provides an extended report of the content of the entire view. See a screenshot: This new report provides extended capabilities far beyond just providing the data like in […]

We have lots of updates, and we’re getting ready for IBM InterConnect next week, so this time we’ll keep each post quite short. If you will be attending InterConnect and you want to see a live demo of our add-on tools, click here to quickly setup a meeting! IBM InterConnect is around the corner! Preview […]

R&D Reporter (https://www.almtoolbox.com/rnd) is a ClearCase add-on tool that provides development status reports, metrics and charts. We’re often asked what makes our R&D Reporter for ClearCase so special and why it’s better than in-house scripting. Here is a list of the unique value proposition of R&D Reporter (feel free to share with your boss and colleagues): […]

We’re thrilled to reveal some of the exciting features coming soon in R&D Reporter V5.0 for ClearCase. This is just a short list. We’ll provide more details soon (register for our newsletter to receive updates): New report template: two UCM views comparison (click to see a screenshot) New report template: full view \stream report, including […]

Do you have to provide a report on how many code lines have been added, changed and deleted for each code language separately? Soon it will be possible with R&D Reporter for ClearCase. Furthermore, it provides you with the metrics in the specific context that you’re looking for: when comparing two baselines, two streams, two […]

In this article, we’ll describe the challenges in using ClearCase to manage legacy code, and how our extensions can help you save time, effort and money while mitigating risks. What exactly is legacy code and what are the inherent challenges? Legacy code is source code created for a system that is no-longer actively supported by […]

We have organized two webcasts this month about great features in ClearCase – and you can join them at no charge! Webinar: Introducing Automatic Views with Peter Hack, the ClearCase architect. Mr. Hack will introduce an important new feature in ClearCase, “Automatic Views”. This is a new kind of a view, similar to dynamic views […]

Over the last months we released two versions. It’s now time to take a benchmark and let you know some interesting facts how it can help you with ClearCase. 1. You can easily hover on the code and discover for each line which version it was checked in; who checked-in that line; when; what activity […]

Order our solutions by the end of the year and take advantage of a special offer! This offer includes the following solutions: Our health check solution for ClearCase VOB servers (now offered “on demand” too!) Development Intelligence and DevOps Solution for ClearCase ClearQuest users Visual Annotating for developers using ClearCase Please contact sales@almtoolbox.com for further details. Do you […]

We meet with many ClearCase users who struggle with low performance. The problem is not always with ClearCase of course. It can stem from other reasons related to the server, networking, client stations, etc. The trick is to find the bottlenecks and know how to deal with them. This article focuses on the performance experience […]

It’s been a long time since we released our last newsletter… Wait no longer – here is our latest newspaper! This year was very busy and exciting for us. New releases, new customers and new ClearCase and SCM, DevOps and ALM challenges we resolved. I visited customers in Germany, US (4 different states), Canada and […]