As agile is adopted by more development shops, the demand for integrated tools that cover the whole application development lifecycle is increasing. Some agile tool vendors try to create the entire suite by themselves, like IBM. Others will try to bring together popular, battle-tested tools from several different sources and combine them into one offering. That's what AccuRev has done. They recently announced their new offering, AgileCycle, which combines Rally Software and Urbancode's Anthill Pro with AccuRev SCM software.
At its core, AgileCycle uses AccuRev Enterprise edition, which includes software configuration management and AccuWork's defect and issue tracking with workflow. Rally's Enterprise project management software is included in the package along with Urbancode’s AnthillPro. Rally takes care of story requirements for agile development, while Anthill Pro handles continuous integration along with build and release management. One area that AccuRev wanted to keep agnostic was testing. AgileCycle has a plugin architecture to integrate a customer's preferred third-party testing tools.
