Wednesday, August 20, 2003
This is Source Control?
If you aren't using source control on your development projects, you should. There are several products available that will do source control for you, some of them free. I just received some training on Telelogic's CM Synergy, which is a new product I'll be using in my development efforts at 3M. CM Synergy is part of a larger suite that manages requirements, bug reports, source code, and more. The source control piece, CM, is a Java program that is run by the developer to handle source control. I will admit, for a Java app, the program is pretty quick. However, as a product, CM Synergy sucks. The UI only half-way follows Windows standards. It also appears that Telelogic never did any usablity tests. Check-out should require a double-click on the file, not right-click | Check out, then double-click to edit. The View Differences and Merge features are awkward. The general feeling from co-workers is that this product is more difficult to use and has fewer features than our current source control program. If you're looking for a source control package, don't bother with Telelogic.
If you aren't using source control on your development projects, you should. There are several products available that will do source control for you, some of them free. I just received some training on Telelogic's CM Synergy, which is a new product I'll be using in my development efforts at 3M. CM Synergy is part of a larger suite that manages requirements, bug reports, source code, and more. The source control piece, CM, is a Java program that is run by the developer to handle source control. I will admit, for a Java app, the program is pretty quick. However, as a product, CM Synergy sucks. The UI only half-way follows Windows standards. It also appears that Telelogic never did any usablity tests. Check-out should require a double-click on the file, not right-click | Check out, then double-click to edit. The View Differences and Merge features are awkward. The general feeling from co-workers is that this product is more difficult to use and has fewer features than our current source control program. If you're looking for a source control package, don't bother with Telelogic.
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Nobody will probably read this as the entry is 4 years old, but anyway if you are actually checking out individual files then you're using Synergy the wrong way. The easier way is to just checkout an entire work area, make whatever changes you are going to make (could be one file or one hundred files) and then check out all the files with reconcile. Easy as pie (and it was that way already in 2003).
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