ClearCase & ClearQuest
ClearCase & ClearQuest
I am properly jinxing things by writing this, if so I will shoot my self at a later time, and of course blog about it before hand. For the past 6-9months or so we have been under the torture of ClearCase and ClearQuest, Actually I think I would prefer actual torture to those tools, but that is another story, but finally after a very long struggle which I can only pad my team on the back for, we are beginning to see an end of all this. So you finally saw the light that ClearCase & ClearQuest brings?...
I’m not sure why the above is a philosophy that occurs more and more frequently, one reason is that people properly don’t realize that they do exactly that.
I work at a place where we pride our self in being Agile, good at Processes, Optimizations, Tracking, Controlling and Reaction and all so fine words. Yes we are indeed a Agile CMMI5 certified company.
This is why I now wonder why after making a mistake as big as choosing ClearCase/ClearQuest house wide, and then admitting that CC/CQ might not exactly be the thing for small projects (my claim is that it is useless...
While I still live in the hell of ClearCase and ClearQuest. If there in contrast to my beliefs was a God and a Hell as the bible mention it, I am very sure that all developers who has ever worked on ClearCase / ClearQuest (without trying to sabotage it) is headed there, while all developers forced to work with it gets a free pass to heaven no matter what other sins they might have performed. The Visual Studio integration of ClearCase / ClearQuest just plain simply sucks. Or that might imply that it actually works a little?, my...
IT IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS!... I’m using ClearCase to either: · Rebasing my stream… · Delivering my stream… · Updating my view… · Adding new files… · Checking changes in… · … This was made while I was rebasing, it was done before ClearCase was.
As a company wide choice, we are moving to ClearCase and ClearQuest one project at at time until we are all on that platform. Most of the projects is moving from CVS while a few others are using Team Foundation Server. We are one of those going from CVS but i have been on a project using TFS as well as using SVN at home, so I have some experience with at least a few kinds of Version Control Systems. On the Issue, feature and enhancement part, I have seen a few different systems as well, here under...