AVS is now a mature Software Configuration Management tool thanks to more than 4 years of development and customer feedback. It has been designed to simplify and minimize developer's extra work linked to configuration management and help them saving time with early conflict detection, while providing a very strong tracability system. Setup, client deployement, administration and general maintenance tasks are also very simple and intuituve, avoiding a full time dedicated administrator.
AVS contains a task based file repository, but also a bug tracker to have both features as close as needed to provide an optimal build management environment. No need to install any third parties to get a fully functional SCM system.
Main features :
- Change request management
- Change request life cycle creation
- File configuration management
- Branch per file
- Atomic task check-in
- File/folder move ability keeping history
- Myers' Algorithm based diff
- 3-way merge editor
- Release management
- User/Group management
- Mail Notification engine
- Secured communication through https
- configuration filter
- parallel configurations
- merge manager
- change request statistics
- parallel development email notification
AVS benefits:
- Contains both change request and source configuration management
- No .cvs or .svn polluting management files/folders within the client Workspace
- Saves time with early conflict detection
- Allows parallel development through a branch per file mecanism
- Very simple administration, no need for a dedicated manager position
- Change request and file management integration eases release management
- Full user management, and access restrictions upon group access controls
- Change request life cycle management allows users keeping their usual processes
- Development tasks allows working on simultaneous issues without confusing commit actions
- Easy integration with external quality tools through automatic script execution and scheduling
