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From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger)
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SS&S CASE Tools for NEXTSTEP
Date: 28 Sep 1993 23:02:35 -0400
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For more information on our products and services, contact one of the following SS&S sales offices:
Main Office
94 Murray Street
Meriden, Connecticut 06450
Phone: (203) 630-2000
Fax: (203) 630-2020
Email: sss@sss.com
Pacific Northwest Regional Office
1222 East Crockett Street
Seattle, Washington 98102
Phone: (206) 860-9295
Fax: (206) 860-6896
Email: sss@pnw.sss.com
DRCS is primarily for revision control of all types of files and
directories, and CodeReviewer is for software analysis and project
tracking of software projects, whether or not they use revision
control.
DRCS does handle binary files of all types, including eps and tiff
files, as well as directories of all types, including
English.lproj, *.dbmodel, and others. Revision control with DRCS
is exactly like using the Workspace Manager's FileViewer. Drag
from an archive in a DRCS Viewer to check a file or directory out,
and drop into an archive in a DRCS Viewer to check it in. Panels
to control the action in more detail are available through the DRCS
Viewer. In other respects, the DRCS Viewer behaves like the
FileViewer.
CodeReviewer is primarily a project management and programmer's
tool that works very well with various revision control systems,
but CodeReviewer does not attempt to do code version control itself
- it concentrates on analysis and tracking of file/project metric
histories, which it stores in a relational database, in spreadsheet
files, or in flat files.
Availability of demos:
We have not been distributing demo versions of DRCS, due to the
difficulty in showing off the product in less than a fully enabled
version. We continue to work on that problem, and I hope to have a
demo version for wide distribution by October. We have a
demonstration version of CodeReviewer, which shows off much of the
tool. The production versions of both products are available now
for both NeXT and Intel NEXTSTEP.
Further information on SS&S CASE Tools:
SS&S CASE Tools
All SS&S CASE Tools are provided with under a floating license for
maximum convenience to the user. All SS&S CASE Tools are shipping
now for both NeXT and Intel hardware. Where noted, SS&S CASE Tools
are shipping for other platforms as well. SS&S provides project
methodology and life cycle consulting services as well as the
following tools. Contact our Main Office for details.
DRCS(TM)
DRCS allows NEXTSTEP and Unix users, whether they're developers or
not, to enjoy full version management and revision control of
everything from .rtfd files to entire filesystems. Anyone who can
use NEXTSTEP can learn how to use the DRCS Graphical User Interface
in a matter of minutes.
DRCS provides project lifetime tracking and revision control for
entire directories as well as files. Users can freely access the
contents of a directory revision archive or treat the entire
archive as a single unit. DRCS directory archives maintain a
history of their previous contents, even if files have been renamed
or deleted. Users can call DRCS shell commands directly from a
terminal window or access the full power of the system through the
DRCS Graphical User Interface.
The DRCS Graphical User Interface allows the user to open an
arbitrary number of Workspace Manager-like File Viewers rooted at
different locations in the file system. Revision control is
provided transparently through standard mouse operations. For
example, the user can select a group of files in the Workspace
Manager File Viewer and drag them into a project revision control
directory in a DRCS File Viewer - the revision histories are
automatically updated. Inspector Panels allow the user to select
revision control options and make log entries, and a Preferences
panel provides a full range of default settings.
DRCS provides full compatibility with existing RCS revision
archives ("RCS" directories). The DRCS shell commands support 100%
of the command-line options of the corresponding RCS commands,
while extending those commands to operate on directories as well as
files. In addition, DRCS offers advanced features like automated
file renaming and whole-project revision histories.
Platforms: The DRCS command line interface is available now for
most Unix platforms, including NEXTSTEP on NeXT, 486, and Pentium,
Sun/Solaris, Hewlett Packard/HP-UX, Digital/Ultrix and OSF/1,
SGI/Irix, IBM/AIX, SCO UNIX, and Unixware. The DRCS Graphical User
Interface is available now under NEXTSTEP for both NeXT and Intel
hardware, and it will be available under Motif and generic X
windows for Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and other platforms in October,
1993.
Price: $195.00 for a single user floating license. Multi-user and
site licenses are available at discounts. Contact SS&S for
details.
CodeReviewer(TM)
CodeReviewer helps track and manage changes to objects and other
code in multi-person development efforts. CodeReviewer allows
project managers and developers to analyze versions of code
visually and formally, according to industry-standard software
metrics. Visual analysis is supported for any type of code, while
software metrics can be computed, compared, and graphed for C, C++,
Objective-C, and YACC code.
With CodeReviewer, project managers can gain control of changes to
code and avoid the morass of object incompatibilities that can
plague large object-oriented development efforts. Progress on
goals can be tracked down to the level of changes in methods and
functions in an individual source file. Development can proceed
with greater efficiency toward its goals with CodeReviewer.
Developers can use CodeReviewer to quickly appraise the state of
legacy code and the work that has been done on it in the past. The
complexity analysis functions of CodeReviewer can point developers
to problem spots in code before they become bugs or maintenance
headaches. Also, CodeReviewer can get developers up to speed on an
unfamiliar project in a fraction of the time it would take them
without it.
CodeReviewer is fully integrated with NEXTSTEP, and its user
interface is immediately familiar to users of standard NEXTSTEP
applications. CodeReviewer provides its analysis capabilities via
services, as well, to allow easy integration with the current
development environment. CodeReviewer is capable of reading
projects created by SS&S's DRCS graphical revision control system,
as well as RCS directories.
Platforms: CodeReviewer is available now under NEXTSTEP for both
NeXT and Intel hardware, and it will be available under Motif and
generic X windows for Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and other platforms
in October, 1993.
Price: $495.00 for a single user floating license. Multi-user and
site licenses are available at discounts. Contact SS&S for
details.
For more information on our products and services, contact one of
the following SS&S sales offices:
Main Office
94 Murray Street
Meriden, Connecticut 06450
Phone: (203) 630-2000
Fax: (203) 630-2020
Email: sss@sss.com
Pacific Northwest Regional Office
1222 East Crockett Street
Seattle, Washington 98102
Phone: (206) 860-9295
Fax: (206) 860-6896
Email: sss@pnw.sss.com
Additional information on DRCS:
DRCS(TM) Directory Revision Control System
It's a simple concept, but one which seems to have eluded creators
of revision management systems until now 1 make a powerful revision
control system that will work for all kinds of files and
directories, but is simple enough to use right away and flexible
enough to provide a basis for many different project management
strategies.
Tap the power of comprehensive revision control with DRCS from
Software Services and Solutions, Inc. - the directory-capable
revision control application that makes everything from recovering
old versions of reports to managing large multi-user development
projects as easy as using the NEXTSTEP Workspace Manager's File
Viewer. DRCS is a comprehensive revision control system, not to be
confused with simple scripts or systems that cannot handle
directories or binary files.
DRCS incorporates and builds on an enhanced version on the popular
RCS revision control system, and DRCS provides all the
functionality of RCS, along with full backward compatibility with
existing RCS archives.
In addition to standard RCS features, DRCS offers:
o Complete revision control of directory structures and their
contents.
o Full compatibility with all types of NEXTSTEP "files",
including binary files, .rtfd documents and word processor
documents, .nib files and other files that are actually
directories.
o Project-based revision control and version labeling.
o Simplified multi-user project management in distributed and
client-server environments.
o Availability, compatibility, and standard feature set
across a wide range of Unix platforms, including Solaris,
HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, and NEXTSTEP.
o Integration with NEXTSTEP ProjectBuilder.
o Easy-to-use Graphical User Interface under NEXTSTEP.
o Automated file and revision archive renaming.
o Integration with other Software Services and Solutions,
Inc., CASE Tools, such as CodeReviewerTM.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.