GuardIEn is a configuration management system that supports and automates the
control of CA Gen models.
Providing comprehensive change control and model management facilities, it
is a software product for organisations who wish to provide effective control
over applications developed with CA Gen, and who need to reduce the overhead
required to implement these controls.
GuardIEn provides the following
key functions:
- Version control, with status tracking at the object level using project
specific life-cycles and detailed tracking of changes at the object property/statement
level.
- Integrated change control facilities.
- Sophisticated impact analysis tools which access data directly from
the encyclopaedia, allowing rapid impact analysis, ‘where used’
and ‘when changed’ reporting.
- Automated object migrations.
- Automated updating of controlled environments (for example system
test or production) including object migration, impact analysis, source code
generation and installation and other tasks necessary to create and maintain
an executable system.
- Interfaces to enterprise configuration management tools like Endevor,
Harvest and ChangeMan
- Integrated code review capabilities