HI All,
I work for a large (by Australian Standards) government organisation
(the ATO) that does a lot of software development across a range of
platforms. We are increasing the scope of TFS usage to about 500 users
in the very near future (currently about 200).
We are currently evaluating the Clear Case and Clear Quest Product Suite
with a view to understanding how it might either complement or replace
TFS.
We are currently using TFS to manage a number of projects including a
fairly large project in which TFS manages several 100,000 lines of both
Cobol and .Net code. The integration with the Cobol editor is quite
reasonable, using the MS SCCI provider. We also have pockets of Eclipse
(Java, MQ Series) and other platforms which are (or very soon will be)
using TFS.
I've noticed the following which seem to be limitations of either
product and I was wondering if people could comment of the following
points:
1. TFS tightly couples source code to work-items, reports and team
collaboration. As a large enterprise with lots of teams and lots of
projects over time, my team (enterprise architecture) wants to ensure
that we have a view of the source code that is based on the software
assets. We don't want the primary view of the code to be based on
projects, which are centred around tasks, timelines and people. We want
a view that shows how the source fits into the over-arching enterprise
architecture framework. Because TFS uses the Team Project as the
top-level organisational unit, source gets organisated around projects,
rather than being organised as the resulting assets that projects
deliver. It seems like Clear Case / Clear Quest supports this concept
better, with a better layer of abstraction between source organisation
and projects / workflow. But I've not used Clear Case. Am I right?
2. Does Clear Case support the idea of source proxies like TFS?
3. I know that TFS supports migration from Clear Case specifically
and integration with Clear Case. Has anyone got real experience with
this that they can share?
Thanks,
Justin.
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