Coordination and communication are two important parts of a successful development process. Social and organizational constraints have an effect on the development process. By thinking of software configuration management(SCM) in the context of how the SCM process helps team members work together we can apply SCM more effectively. These issues are important regardless of language used, but thes...

As companies move towards larger software projects, management of these projects becomes a crucial issue. Software management can take on many meanings, from revision control to dependency tree specification. The dependency tree specification side of software management has been chiefly controlled by the UNIX Make command. This lightweight, text-based program allows users to specify dependencie...

Change occurs throughout the software lifecycle. Software Configuration Management tools and techniques provide the foundation to effectively control change. With a growing number of approaches combining models from different domains into one unified, integrated model ([15], [12]), there is also an emerging demand for SCM techniques and methods that are able to support these unified models. Tra...

We develop a rule-based method for representing version spaces of software products. The version information is expressed with version clauses that may be combined using conjunction and disjunction. A configuration model is divided into a database and a set of inference rules. The rules have a declarative semantics and they are implemented using the extended rule types of the SMODELS system.

We apply feature logic to the problem of incremental configuration management. Feature logic has originally been developed in computer linguistics as a knowledge representation and inference mechanism. It offers a uniform formalism for the description of variants and revisions, where sets of versions rather than single versions are the basic units of reasoning. Feature logic thus opens a whole ...

Using a solid Software Configuration Management (SCM) is mandatory to establish and maintain the integrity of the products of a software project throughout the project’s software life cycle. Even with the help of sophisticated tools, handling the various dimensions of SCM can be a daunting (and costly) task for many projects. The contribution of this paper is to propose a method (based on the u...

Current interest in ad hoc and peer-to-peer networking technologies prompts a re-examination of models for configuration management, within these frameworks. In the future, network management methods may have to scale to millions of nodes within a single organization, with complex social constraints. In this paper, we discuss whether it is possible to manage the configuration of large numbers o...

The central purpose of this paper is to present a novel framework supporting the specification and the implementation of configuration management policies for distributed applications. The introduced approach is part of a system called PRISMA (A platform for integrated construction and management of distributed applications). It provides an integrated application development environment compris...

Current configuration management systems promote workspaces that isolate developers from each other. This isolation is both good and bad. It is good, because developers make their changes without any interference from changes made concurrently by other developers. It is bad, because not knowing which artifacts are changing in parallel regularly leads to problems when changes are promoted from w...

One of the basic problems when developing component-based systems is that it is difficult to keep track of components and their interrelationships. This problem emerges already in the requirement phase, in which we want to identify and select the most appropriate components. Later, during the assembly and deployment process, or when upgrading components, the problem of components identification...