Posts Tagged ‘borcon’
Randy Listens to Bug Reports
November 9, 2005
New Features in CaliberRM
November 9, 2005The new Tracer allows you to trace from Caliber into StarTeam, against any of the objects that live there. The new Publisher allows you publish Caliber requirements into StarTeam requirements, and then keep republishing them as new baselines are created. The updates change the original StarTeam requirements rather than creating new ones. You can also customize the field mappings.
There will be a CaliberRM 2005 R2 SP1 in about 90 days. It will add a first-class integration for Test Director and Quality Center. Tests will show up in the traceability matrix. Published requirements will come over as native TD/QC requirements, including the tree structure.
In 2006, they plan on adding improved baselining as well as making usability refinements.
New Features in StarTeam
November 8, 2005John Sileski talked a lot about the 2005 and 2005 R2 features. I already knew those, so I'm going to skip them. There are some good things coming, though.
The VS2005 integration is 'coming soon'. I'll find out more tonight. There will be a stronger integration with Test Director and Quality Center.
There is a huge new focus on the SCM functionality. For the past year, they've been focused on doing integrations with the other Borland products. Now, they turn back to the core. The next major release will come next year. Atomic transactions and commit sets. Better view merging tools. Eliminating the Win32 client, and bringing all the functionality to the new multi-platform client. They are running a field test, and I intend on getting involved. Of course, if I do, there are likely things that I can't say anymore.
Oh, and they're replacing Visual Diff and Merge. They're developing a brand new tool, based on some heavy-duty algorithms (some of which they licensed), and accessible via the SDK. It's about time!
Question: Will there be updates to the EA workflow designer?
Answer: No, but there may be new features introduced as part of CoreSDP.
Question: Now that there's a .NET SDK, can we do custom forms in .NET rather than Java?
Answer: Not yet, but we plan on fixing that.
Question: Are you really killing off the Win32 client?
Answer: Yes
That last one left me with some trepidation, but I got the 2005 R2 version of the CPC, and they've fixed a lot of my issues with it. Maybe I'll try using it for a while.
It’s Hard to Get a Picture of Marco
November 8, 2005
New Features in Together
November 8, 2005This had me confused. The vast majority of developers at the show are Delphi programmers. So, why is the lion's share of Together and CoreSDP effort focused on Java?
Oh, and if you're a JBuilder user, you're out of luck for Together 2006. They scrapped it in favor of the Eclipse version.
The 2006 versions bring support for UML 2.0. The .NET versions now support LiveSource technology for both Delphi and C#, in BDS or VS.NET. The VS2005 update is coming in Q1 2006. The version that will bridge between UML and Microsoft's new DSL modeling language should be out in Q3 2006.
Performance for the VS.NET version should drastically improve, since it now shares the code base with the Delphi integration.
Michael Swindell on the Capabilities of BDS
November 8, 2005
Opening Session
November 8, 2005This would have been live, but they shut off the WiFi in the room. No, I don't know why.
9:05 AM
David I takes the stage. This conference is all about the developers.
Chief marketing guy on stage. One year ago, the SDO vision was launched. We're going to show the 2006 tools, as well as the future vision. Tomorrow, Boz will show us Tempo and 'project Maya', a new system for requirements engineering (different from requirements management). Core SDP is the entire suite, multi-language, multi-platform, based on Eclipse.
9:15 AM
New president and CEO (as of today!), Tod Nielsen. Software developers rule the world.
Mission: Deliver business value through successful software projects.
9:22 AM
David I again.
Customer of the Year: Cintas Corporation & Visa International Asia Pacific
Partner of the Year: EDS
Borland Technology Partner: AutomatedQA Corporation, Raize Software, Extended Systems, BuildForge
9:30AM
David I. 'Who wants to see some source code?' Huge roar.
'Who wants to see some Java source code?' Small applause and some groans. 🙂
Charles Overbeck and Ken Chan, JBuilder R&D.
JBuilder has a "Peers" window, which integrates a IM client in the IDE. Can share a live coding session. This includes the GUI designer. Diffs are shown within the IDE coding window, rather than in a separate app, including recent history (without source control involved) and including remote edits.
9:40 AM
David I: 'Who wants to see some Delphi and C++ code?' Huge roar again.
Michael Swindell: 'Delphi AND C++ Builder' -> Borland Developer Studio. Also Delphi for .NET and C#Builder, all in the same IDE. Faster IDE performance (big applause). "VCL Live Guidelines", another good steal from Apple's XCode. More built in refactoring tools. Quality Central access within the IDE. StarTeam and Caliber integrations. Full Together featureset for Delphi.NET and C#, including LiveSource diagrams.
The Caliber support in the IDE allows you to insert the requirement text as a comment in the source file, and you can do a Requirements~Update to pick up any changes.
Borland is now using Caliber and StarTeam for their internal use.
10:12 AM
Allen Bauer: Chief Scientist for Delphi IDE.
Live templates dynamically insert code. (I'm not sure if that would be helpful or irritating.) Ok, maybe it is helpful:
Type in C++
switch (BorderStyle)
and get
switch (BorderStyle){
case bsSingle: break;
case bsSizable: break;
…
default:
}
It can also automatically declare variables if you forget, running the refactoring tools in the background. The Delphi IDE will let you declare a variable anywhere in the code, and when you finish with the declaration, it will move it up into the var section.
In the Tarpit 