What is PVCS? Why do you need?

[spd15]

Can anyone explain me what is the role and importance of PVCS tracker in a QA tester's career? Thanks.

[Sridevichitthu]

Pvcs tracker : pvcs tracker manages problems and change requests that threaten software quality and production schedules. Pvcs tracker prioritizes workloads, communicates results to management, manages multiple projects at the same time, eliminates communication bottlenecks, gives early recognition of software problems, and is fully integrated with pvcs version manager.

Pvcs version manager : intersolv pvcs, the industry standard for software configuration management in the client/server world, supports stand-alone and team development in heterogeneous environments (dos, windows, windows nt, os/2, unix). Pvcs version manager provides revision, version, and promotion management for every file type. Version manager controls parallel development encouraging code reuse across systems.

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sridevichitthu