Hedgehog Releases First Sitecore Product
Hedgehog Development releases Team Development for Sitecore version 1.0 to the market today after an extensive beta period with key customers and partners.
Team Development for Sitecore expands significantly on Microsoft’s demonstrated successes in delivering highly productive tools by offering businesses tightly integrated and extensible life-cycle tools to increase the predictability of their software development process. Now you are able to take advantage of the value Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), Subversion, or many other Source Code Management Systems offer to you on your Sitecore based projects. More information at
http://www.hhogdev.com/products/team-development-for-sitecore.aspx
Top Benefits of Using Team Development for Sitecore
1) Developers in a team environment can work with their own local databases and have their changes make it into the deployment builds without packaging.
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Deployment environments are built from a single source (source code control system).
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Changes from multiple developers do not step on top of each other.
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No packages are needed to deploy a solution all the way to production.
2) Allows Sitecore items and .NET code to be maintained in source control giving you all the advantages of a source code control system.
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Complete accountability and audit trail for all changes to all Sitecore items and .NET code in a project.
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All of your Sitecore items and code are stored in a single repository, meaning backups are easy to do, making your work safe.
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Developers can work remotely or disconnected from the network and then sync and merge changes at a later date to the source code control system.
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You can easily compare versions of items and code.
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You can rollback to prior versions if there is a problem.
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You can easily merge changes.
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Branching and other advanced source code management techniques can be leveraged.
3) Allows developers in a team environment to work within their own sandbox without the hardship of transferring their Sitecore items to other developers and/or environments. This includes completely disconnected environments like laptops.
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All Sitecore items and code are checked into the source code control system, and this system is the single source for builds and deployments.
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No more packaging.
4) New developers can very quickly be added onto an existing Sitecore project.
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Existing team member down time is minimized in getting a new team member up to speed.
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The new developer can pick up new code quickly by reviewing check-in history of Sitecore items and .NET code.
5) You can easily create type specific build scripts providing support for continuous integration builds to your multiple environments.
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Designers, project managers, and clients can see the Sitecore project come to life in real time allowing for changes and additions to be quickly integrated into the solution.
6) Visual graphing of Sitecore templates and relationships.
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Templates and their relationships are quickly and easily viewed in a graphical manner similar to a class diagram.
7) The ability to managing the release of a Sitecore project using proven best practices for application development.
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Develop locally.
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Continuous integration to QA and staging environments.
8) Full integration with Visual Studio Team System work item tracking and reporting.
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Project managers and testers can easily track and assign work items and report bugs
9) Convenient MSI install for clients.
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