Why SCM?

When you start managing your UCTool project in a source code management system (SCM), you get several important benefits, including:

• Back-up. Your sources are also in the SCM, so in case of loosing your working copy you can check-out them from SCM.
• History of changes. A SCM system keeps history of changes you made to your source files, so you can see what has changed and when, revert to older versions, revert particular change, etc.
• Concurrent editing of sources by multiple writers. A SCM system allows for multiple writers to work on the use cases at the same time, and even on the same source file, by providing means to merge their work together again.

One of the most widely used SCM is Subversion (SVN).

Start using SVN in your UCTool project

To start managing a UCTool project in Subversion:

1. Have a Subversion server (out of scope of this tutorial).
2. Install Subclipse, the Eclipse plugin for Subversion.
3. Open the SVN Repository Exploring perspective in Eclipse.
4. Add a new repository location pointing to your Subversion server.
5. Share the project to the repository (right-click project, Team -> Share Project...).