Release notes for CodeReviewer 2.7.5 demonstration version of July 7th, 1994

Special limited time offer:
Until July 31st, 1994, Software Services and Solutions, Inc., is offering a special bundle of our award winning SS&S CASE Tools products, CodeReviewer and DRCS, for half off our usual price.

CodeReviewer, the software project analysis tool (normal price $495), and DRCS, the graphical revision control system (normal price $245), are both being offered in single developer floating license triple fat binary versions for $370 total until July 31st, 1994.  There is a limit of one bundle per organization at this price.

SS&S made this offer at the NEXTSTEP Expo, where we demonstrated these SS&S CASE Tools under NEXTSTEP on HP PA-RISC, Intel, and NeXT hardware at our booth, and received the Object Honors Award for consulting work employing these tools.  We are repeating the offer on the net to allow developers who were not able to attend the conference to take advantage of this special offer.

The software in this special bundle includes full free upgrades to both products through the next major releases (CodeReviewer 3.0 and DRCS 2.0).  CodeReviewer is currently at version 2.7.5, and DRCS is at version 1.8.6.

Your savings on this special bundle will be preserved as you upgrade the number of users at your site using the tools.  If you wish to upgrade the number of users in your licenses for these special bundled versions of the SS&S CASE Tools in the future, you will need only pay the difference in cost between our normal single user license and the multi-user license of your choice. 

To purchase this special bundle, email, fax, call, or mail in your order before the end of July 31st, 1994, to us at any of the following addresses or phone numbers:

Software Services and Solutions, Inc.
94 Murray Street
Meriden, CT  06450
email: CASE_Tools@sss.com
phone: (203) 630-2000
fax: (203) 630-2020

Demonstration versions of both products are available from Software Services and Solutions, Inc..  Contact us by email, fax, or phone to obtain a demo or the location of an ftpable demo.

A short introduction to CodeReviewer and DRCS:

CodeReviewerTM

CodeReviewer is a software analysis tool designed to increase the productivity of developers, get new developers up to speed on a project quickly, and provide information to guide project managers in preventing trouble spots and reducing maintenance costs by producing higher quality code.  CodeReviewer allows project managers and developers to analyze versions of code visually and formally, according to industry-standard software metrics.  Formal analysis across the objects in a project can guide a drill-down to the actual code of methods that needs to be revised.  Visual analysis is supported for any type of code, while software metrics can be computed, compared, and graphed for Objective-C, C++, C, and YACC code.

With CodeReviewer, a programmer can quickly see where to best spend limited resources in order to create the most bug-free, maintainable code possible.  Project Managers use CodeReviewer to keep track of and manage changes to objects and other code in multi-person development efforts and to target effort at improving code that would otherwise have a high maintenance cost in the future.  

CodeReviewer integrates well with ProjectBuilder and the standard NEXTSTEP development tools, as well as with source code management systems, if they are in use on a project.  CodeReviewer creates and reads .CodeReviewer documents, which can also be read by spreadsheets and a variety of other tools.  CodeReviewer also exports the results of its analyses in a variety of other formats.

DRCSTM

DRCS fills the gap in the NEXTSTEP development environment by providing graphical access to project version management functions that are tightly integrated with ProjectBuilder, Interface Builder, and the standard development environment.  With DRCS, developers need never break the flow of their graphical development cycle by going to a shell window to check in or check out components of a project.  DRCS handles all of the resources used in NEXTSTEP development, including nib files, binary files, and directories.

DRCS allows NEXTSTEP and Unix users, whether they're developers or not, to enjoy full version management and revision control of everything from wordprocessor documents to directories of NEXTSTEP projects to entire filesystems. Anyone who can use NEXTSTEP can learn how to use the DRCS Graphical User Interface in a matter of minutes.

DRCS provides project lifetime tracking and revision control for entire directories as well as files.  DRCS directory archives maintain a history of their previous contents, even if component files have been renamed, or deleted.  Users can call DRCS shell commands directly from a terminal window or access the full power of the system through the DRCS Graphical User Interface, which resembles the NEXTSTEP Workspace Manager.

All SS&S CASE Tools are sold under a floating license for maximum convenience to the user.  SS&S has an aggressive multi-license discount program.

About this demonstration version of CodeReviewer 2.7.5:

This demonstration version of CodeReviewer limits its analysis of source code to the first 150 lines of a file; printing and saving the results of analyses are disabled, and the application times out ten minutes after launch.  Interaction with CodeReviewer through Services is also disabled, as is exporting data from CodeReviewer.  The production version of CodeReviewer, which has none of these limitations and integrates extremely well into the standard NEXTSTEP development environment, can be purchased directly from Software Services and Solutions, Inc..  See the bottom of this message for ordering information.

The demo will run under NEXTSTEP 3.1 and 3.2 on NeXT and Intel hardware.  Contact SS&S via email to CASE_Tools@sss.com if you require a demo that will run under NEXTSTEP 3.0 or on NEXTSTEP on HP/PA-RISC.  The production version of CodeReviewer is triple fat, and runs on any machine running NEXTSTEP anywhere on a network.

Key features of CodeReviewer:

·	Lowers costs by finding trouble spots before they become costly bugs
·	Increases the productivity of developers
·	Gets new developers up to speed on a project quickly
·	Reduces maintenance costs by enabling higher quality code production
·	Supports visual analyses of versions of files
·	Alows changes in different versions to be examined in context and merged
·	Computes formal software complexity and quality metrics on code
·	Supports formal analysis of Objective-C, C++, C, and YACC code
·	Enables hierarchical analysis to drill down to problem code quickly
·	Integrates well with optional source code management systems, including DRCS, RCS, CVS, and others
·	Allows development history to be examined
·	Fully integrated with ProjectBuilder and standard NEXTSTEP development tools
·	Supports analysis of multiple files and multiple projects simultaneously
·	Exports analysis results in a format readable by spreadsheets and other tools
·	Allows quick appraisal of legacy code and previous work

Pricing:

Until July 31st, 1994, Software Services and Solutions, Inc., is offering a special bundle of CodeReviewer and DRCS, for $370, which is half off our usual price.  There is a limit of one bundle per organization at this price.

CodeReviewer and DRCS bundle:	$370

SS&S CASE Tools are not node-locked.  They are provided under a floating license server for maximum convenience to the developer.  All SS&S CASE Tools will run on NEXTSTEP on HP/PA-RISC, Pentium, 486, and NeXT hardware.

Normal pricing for single developer licenses for SS&S CASE Tools are the following:

CodeReviewer:	$495
DRCS:			$245

Multiple license discount schedule:

All SS&S CASE Tools are sold under the following multiple license discount schedule, which gives an immediate 10% discount for a second license purchase, and reaches a discount of 30% for orders of over 40 licenses.

		licenses at a site	discount off single license price
		2 to 5	 10.0% off
		6 to 10	 16.0% off
		11 to 15	 21.0% off
		16 to 20	 25.0% off
		21 to 30	 28.5% off
		31 to 40	 29.5% off
		41 and up	 30.0% off

Upgrade policy and future releases:

All licensees of SS&S CASE Tools are entitled to free upgrades to their licenses through the next major releases (CodeReviewer 3.0 and DRCS 2.0).  CodeReviewer is currently at version 2.7.5, and DRCS is at version 1.8.6.  Upgrades are provided at no license cost, only a nominal media and shipping fee.

Future versions of CodeReviewer before CodeReviewer 3.0 will include enhanced project-wide analyses and summaries, easier to use drill-down functions, enhanced support of a wider range of revision management systems, and support for script-driven automatic analyses on large numbers of files.

Ordering:

Licenses for SS&S CASE Tools can be purchased directly from Software Services and Solutions, Inc..  We accept payment by check, money order, or interbank wire transfer.  Send your order to the following address:

Software Services and Solutions, Inc.
94 Murray Street
Meriden, CT  06450

Please also include the following shipping charges per order:

Domestic customers:	$  7
Canadian customers:	$12
Other international:	$25

Orders for delivery within Connecticut should include 6% sales tax, as well.

For information on payment by interbank wire transfer, contact us by email, fax, or phone:

email: CASE_Tools@sss.com
phone: (203) 630-2000
fax: (203) 630-2020

About Software Services and Solutions, Inc.:

Software Services and Solutions, Inc., headquartered in Meriden, Connecticut, is an information technology consulting firm specializing in open systems technology, object-oriented software design and development, and networking.  Software Services and Solutions, Inc., provides technology consulting, reengineering, and custom development services to businesses worldwide, and also produces high quality off-the-shelf development tools and ObjectWare for developers of custom applications.  SS&S can be reached via email to sss@sss.com, phone to (203) 630-2000, or fax to (203) 630-2020.

Software Services and Solutions, Inc., received the 1994 Object Honors Award for NEXTSTEP software development and project consulting work employing SS&S CASE Tools.