A number of changes in the use of software have resulted in a series of common issues for software development teams pertaining to version control and SVN hosting. Older problems, such as wide team and project scopes, are still around, but more modern snags have many organizations looking for solutions that can take a while to discover, according to ChipDesignMag.com.

The integration of various solutions with each other has forced developers to spend substantial time ensuring newly developed solutions can function with other common software. As a result, developers have to ensure that they can function properly, lest customers opt against purchasing the solution because it will limit their integration capability, the news provider reports.

"The more programmable or multiple operating modes, the more combinations you have to deal with," Chris Rowen, chief technology officer at Tensilica, told the news provider. "There’s a combinatory explosion of how the pieces fit together. You have upgrades on everything, and then you simultaneously change some things and guarantee that all the new things will work with the old things."

As companies continue to expand their IT capability, version control becomes even more pivotal. Development teams must ensure that their product - or at least future iterations - will be compatible with solutions likely to be more common.

"This gets doubly hard when hardware, firmware or some tool or module gets added in later," Rowen told the news provider. "All the interfaces are now standardized, but sometimes they don’t conform to the standard. You have to try them all out and test it, and if it doesn’t work you have to modify it. Open source contributes to this, too. You must stay current in open source but you don’t always know what changed. It’s written in some note somewhere, but that’s not always easy to find."

Managing source code is especially important to help developers and other IT specialists with subversion hosting. When alterations need to be made to an older solution, teams can simply recall the code and get to work. For organizations using such methods as agile development, the ability to locate code quickly is important due to deadlines and other organizational aspects required. Any missed deadlines or failure to stay under a defined budget can be devastating for agile software development teams, while other issues, such as version control, are easy to manage. Therefore, keeping track of code throughout its life-cycle is the type of process that can mean the difference between long-term success and failure for a company.