AccuRev, Electric Cloud seek to boost app development productivity by combining automated capabilities with process-enabled software configuration management AccuRev and Electric Cloud announced a partnership this week to boost software development productivity by combining automated build, test, and deployment capabilities from Electric Cloud with process-enabled software configuration management from AccuRev.The arrangement leverages Electric Cloud ElectricCommander software with AccuRev to advance multistage, continuous integration and scalable agile best practices, the companies said. Multistage continuous integration is used to automatically build and test changes pushed to each stage in the development process. These stages include code creation, integration, quality assurance, and code reviews.AccuRev enables development of a hierarchy and gives visibility into changes at each stage and merging between stages. ElectricCommander offers process automation to make multistage continuous integration scale and repeat, the companies said. “Continuous integration and automated build/release processes are the backbone of shorter iterations and agile best practices,” said Cliff Utstein, AccuRev vice president of marketing, in a statement released by the companies. “AccuRev software is designed to enable these processes out-of-the-box, making a technology partnership with Electric Cloud a natural fit for AccuRev by completing the solution for software development teams.”The integration between ElectricCommander and AccuRev combines and extends continuous integration best practices to solve the problem of slow builds and developers checking in additional code changes during the time a build is running, the companies said.“We’re finding more and more that enterprises are tying best-of-breed development tools together to provide a unified workflow,” said Jim Bell, Electric Cloud vice president of marketing, also in a statement. “ElectricCommander provides a robust automation layer that can unify tools, people, and processes. This integration with AccuRev will help organizations to not only enable continuous integration, but provide end-to-end traceability from source code, through the build and test process, to deployed application.” Software Development