This paper examines the relations between software architecture and software configuration management. These disciplines overlap because they are both concerned with the structure of a software system being described in terms of components and relationships. On the other hand, they differ with respect to their focus — specific support for programming-in-the-large, versus general support for the...

The architecture is the fundamental framework for designing and implementing large scale software, and the ability to trace and control its evolution is essential. However, many traditional software configuration management tools view ‘software’ merely as a set of files, not as an architecture. This introduces an unfortunate impedance mismatch between the design domain (architecture level) and ...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are a category of wireless networks that are self-organized, robust and which offer more flexible client coverage with less equipment requirements than wired networks. In WMNs, mesh routers constitute the network’s “backbone”. The distributed, ever-changing and ad-hoc nature of these networks poses new challenges in configuration management. In order to face them, ...

Current network management systems rely heavily on forms in their user interfaces. The interfaces reflect the intricacies of the network hardware components but provide little support for guiding users through tasks. There is a scarcity of useful graphical visualizations and decision-support tools. We applied a task-oriented approach to design and implemented the user interface for a prototype ...

Workflow management systems are a cornerstone of mission-criticial, possibly cross-organizational business processes. For large-scale applications both their performance and availability are crucial factors, and the system needs to be properly configured to meet the application demands. Despite ample work on scalable system architectures for workflow management, the literature has neglected the...

A nationwide internet telephony network is described that uses H.323 gateways distributed around the country to provide customers with local telephone access to application services hosted at a central data center. A key technology that enables deployment of the network is automated configuration management. The configuration management system includes a detailed object-oriented data model of t...

The assurance of network-wide configuration data consistency in mobile networks is a complex task due to the degree of distribution of the network elements, the properties of the O&M network and the configuration dependencies between the network elements (NEs). To cope with these characteristics, an approach is presented, where configuration changes are communicated as transactions between the ...

For almost ten years, Make has been a most important tool for development and maintenance of software systems. Its general usefulness and the simple formalism of the Makefile made Make one of the most popular UNIX† tools. However, with the increased upcoming of software production environments, there is a growing awareness for the matter of software configuration management which unveiled a num...

Using configuration management (CM) within the method engineering discipline is a relatively new field of research (Greiffenberg, 2003; Saeki, 2006; Saeki & Oda, 2005). CM administrates revisions and variants of methods and provides a change process to control method modifications. Thus, method CM realizes the traceability of method changes, enables distributed method engineering and ensure a c...

The ever-increasing complexity and diversity of consumer products drives the creation of product families (products with many commonalties and few differences) and product populations (products with many commonalties but also with many differences). For the latter, we use an approach based on composition of software components, organized in packages. This influences our configuration management...