| AVT
develops integrated solutions that improve printing processes via
on-line automatic monitoring, inspection, alert, and other vision-based
press controls for both the Packaging printing and Labels Printing
markets. The Company achieved a leading position in its markets with
technologies that leverage advances in electro-optics and image processing.
AVT is a long-time user of Seapine products,
having used TestTrack Pro for some time now. Lately they decided
to introduce a comprehensive Configuration Management methodology,
which triggered a process of gradual introduction of Surround SCM.
The original problem that led to this decision was the lack of a
parallel development capability when most development is performed
from the Visual Studio interface and they use the default version
control tool. The advantages of the new methodology started to be
felt very shortly afterwards:
- The original objective was to streamline the
process of branching and merging - At AVT they release many versions
a year, in different structures and from different code trees. The
need to transfer code from one development tree to another appears
very often. The previous tool they used did not support this particular
need. Now, thanks to the virtual splitting capacity of Surround,
developers perform branch and merge with great much more efficiently.
- AVT, as many other organizations has some
difficulty measuring ROI of development technologies, mostly because
the lack of metric data from the situation before the technological
change. This said, AVT developers say that they achieved enormous
time savings: a merge process that took two man-days (two developers
that worked on different trees got together, made changes together
and compiled the code together), now requires only one man-hour
(Two developers work on their own trees, perform promote and rebase
fast in a controlled manner)
- The development leaders in AVT are convinced
that the current process will save them many errors and stoppages.
Zeev Meirav, VP of Technology and Product Line
Manager at AVT says: "Thanks to Seapine we now have the capacity
for different teams to share the development infrastructure"
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