THE ISSUE...

Within the context of the evolution of an application, it happens frequently that fixes have to be put in place in parallel with development. Consequently, it happens that a programmer has to enter a modification twice in the same source file.

ARCAD-Skipper will of course manage these situations by providing the developer with a separate development environment for modifications.
However, there will be a time when the developer will have to integrate fixes or intermediate releases in the new version of the product. Performing this operation manually is a source of error and is time consuming.

THE ARCAD SOLUTION...

ARCAD-Skipper provides the developers with different source comparison tools depending on the environment they are working in:

• A native “System i” tool with a specific characteristic: it allows the developer to mark the modified lines directly in the source file.
• The access to the standard comparison tool provided within the Eclipse environment if you are working from this environment or from WDSc.

They both include a mechanism to help merging sources; this is very useful when working with the merge of modifications.

These source comparison tools are also used a lot in the context of the evolution of a specific application interfacing a standard software package (refer to  “software package reception” section).