a Department of Computer Information Systems, Baruch College, The City University of New York, United States b Department of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States c Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, Old Dominion University, United States d Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Unite...

Software Configuration Management systems are important instruments for supporting development of large software projects. They accumulate large amounts of evolution data that can be used for process accounting and auditing. We study how visualization can help developers and managers to get insight in this unstructured history information. To this end, we propose several new techniques for visu...

This paper presents an automated environment configuration testing strategy developed as part of an action research project to deal with issues of staging environment instability in a large organization. We demonstrate how a suite of automated environment configuration tests provided an unobtrusive way to verify the hospitability of staging environments, decreased the time wasted on manual trou...

We move on now from the maintenance of the function of the system’s code (considered in Chapters 2 and 3) and of the functionality of the application (considered in Chapter 4) to the evolution of the system’s code and of a sequence of system releases. Software Configuration Management (SCM) is “the discipline of controlling the evolution of complex software systems” [18]. SCM tools [5] are comm...

Der Autor trat im Februar 2002 in die Swiss Re ein und übernahm die Verantwortung für die dort verwendete Datenbeschreibungssprache, die Swiss Re Data Language. Ein Rückblick im April 2006 bestätigt, dass sich in einem global agierenden Grossunternehmen vielfältige praktische Hindernisse stellen, die die Umsetzung theoretisch gebotener Modelle erschweren. Aus verschiedenen Perspektiven (Change-...

This paper presents a case-study of a Configuration Management (CM) tool evaluation. The evaluation was performed in a company with a long tradition of using CM tools. Although several generations of CM tools have been developed internally, different reasons led to a decision not to use CM tools internally developed but to buy a tool available on the market. A detailed evaluation was performed ...

Software configuration management (SCM) is an important activity in the software engineering life cycle. SCM by control of the evolution process of products leads to constancy and stability in software systems. Nowadays, use of software configuration management is essential during the process of software development as rules to control and manage the evolution of software systems. SCM effects d...