"This is the first tool that shows a plan that spans different vendors' ALM tools," such as tools from Rally Software and HP, said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop. The company also announced Tasktop Enterprise 2.0 for Visual Studio, which works with Microsoft's IDE, in which developers can see tasks from more than 20 tools. Mylyn task list facilities are provided for Visual Studio.

Also this week, AccuRev announced an update to its Eclipse plugin for integrating Eclipse with the AccuRev software configuration management technology. Via the addition of a timeline-based "diff" capability. the Eclipse Plug-in for Eclipse now allows developers to visually step through historical changes made to a source file and locate changes between points in time. Auditing to track planned content versus actual content also is offered. Advanced support is featured for Eclipse 3.6. The Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" release also is supported.

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