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CA Harvest SCM

CA Harvest Software Change Manager (formerly known as CA Harvest Change Manager) helps you synchronize development activities throughout the application development lifecycle on multiple platforms and across your enterprise. CA Harvest SCM provides you with the following functionality:

• Adaptability—You can easily adapt CA Harvest SCM to use your own development lifecycle processes. You can update or change CA Harvest SCM lifecycle templates as new process improvements are identified and approved. This adaptability keeps software changes under control, schedules on track, and your team up-to-date.
• Security—You can control access to administrative functions and protect sensitive data. Options are provided for the secure use of command-line interface (CLI) and remote agent technology.

  CA Harvest SCM authenticates users. CA Harvest SCM can control the execution of lifecycle processes and secure archived items. You can define each process in the CA Harvest SCM lifecycle to provide a flexible security model.

• Usability—The CA Harvest SCM graphical user interface (the Workbench) provides you with ease-of-use and minimal training time.
• Concurrent Development Support—More than one developer can work on the same area of code simultaneously without risk of overwriting changes. Developers can use merge utilities to resolve any conflicts between versions.
• Parallel Development Support—You can maintain multiple releases of the same application. For example, you can work on emergency fixes for a release and at the same time work on the next release of that application. If necessary, you can merge changes made for the emergency into the main application development cycle.
• Change and Defect Tracking—You can track changes and testing defects in associated packages and forms. Using reports, you can obtain current and historical information about changes and packages. Your application production environment provides a history of the development process, including specific changes and the reasons they were made.
• Tool Integration—Interfaces from integrated development environments (IDEs) let developers perform routine SCM functions without leaving the IDE.

  CA Harvest SCM enables Workbench users to plug in third-party difference and merge tools, such as Araxis Ltd. Merge and Guiffy Software, Inc., in place of internal difference and merge tools.

• Complete Solution—All functional groups involved in the development and maintenance process can benefit from CA Harvest SCM, not only programmers. CA Harvest SCM can control the entire development process, including problem tracking, change management, builds, testing, quality assurance, documentation, and release. Extensive management reporting capabilities support auditing functions throughout the entire process.