Babbage output should be familiar to those user who regularly use Harvest's synchronizer. Here is a simple example showing the differences between two closely related projects.
The key differences that are indicated in the tree-view are as follows:
Now, if you look the right-hand pane, you can see a comparison of the properties for the selected Check In Items process, which was marked as containing differences in the tree-view.
The only difference is the line highlighted in bold, showing that the New Item on Branch setting for the process is different between the two lifecycles. If you look at the actual values, you can see that Test Project 2 allows new items to be checked in on the branch, whereas Test Project does not.
You can also see that a number of the properties are shown in grey. These are shown only for reference and their values are not used in the comparison. By default Babbage recognises and excludes certain properties which are normally different (for example object ids), but you can exclude properties yourself using the property filter mechanism.