Archive for the ‘Annotate’ Category

If you recently evaluated our Visual Annotate add-on tool, we’d like to ask you two quick questions that can help us improve this tool. Background: Visual Annotate is currently provided as a stand-alone application that is seamlessly integrated with ClearCase (you can see here an example how it looks like). The questions are: Would you […]

Have you ever asked yourself any of the following questions? Who checked in a certain code line? Who removed a code line or an entire function? Where a change really came from? Which defect is related to a certain code line When was a particular line inserted? How can I find the lines which have […]

Last week we released Visual Annotate v3.6 . As part of the release, we are offering a free training webinar to show the users what’s new and give an updated overview of this tool. Visual Annotate is a lightweight tool that tracks the development history from the code lines perspective, helping you to quickly detect […]

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 […]

See some usages that can help you on your daily tasks: 1. Quickly find out who checked-in a certain code line, when, and on which version: This feature is particularly useful when you have dozens or hundreds of file versions and you can’t readily open the Version Tree for each one and quickly ascertain into exactly which one of the many existing versions your ”target” code […]

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 […]

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 […]