This paper describes an NFS configuration and management system for large and heterogeneous computer environments. It also shows how this system can be extended to address other services in the network. The solution is composed of a process that describes service configuration and management life-cycle, a modular architecture and an objected oriented model. The system supports multiple features...

This paper introduces an innovative visualisation technique for exposing the software defects that develop as a software project evolves. The application of this technique to a large-scale industrial software project is described together with the way in which the technique was modified to enable integration with the software configuration management process. The paper shows how a number of for...

A metainformatics symposium provides an excellent opportunity to explore, discuss and investigate how configuration management techniques and principles can be expanded into new fields and how it itself can incorporate techniques from other fields. 1. Software Configuration Management For a long time Software Configuration Management (SCM) has been considered an important part of software engin...

The principle of modularisation is one of the main techniques that software designers use to tame the complexity of programming. A software project, however, is complex in many other areas than just programming. In this paper, we focus on one of these complex areas, namely software configuration management, and outline how modularisation is natural and powerful also in this context. The analysi...

Based on the static structure of Lyee programs, a configuration management concept for Lyee software projects is presented. After describing a modularization concept which is vital for configuration management, the configuration management concept itself is elaborated by showing the involved elements and procedures. Finally, the structure of the actual configuration management tool is presented...

We tend to write software in a parameterized way with parameter values specified in configuration files. Such configurability allows us to deploy software in a context not initially thought of, but it also has the downside that it introduces a new class of hard-to-track faults. This issue arises because the use of configurations in programs is not integrated into configuration management needed...

Configuration management is an important problem in large software systems. When dealing with hundreds of components, keeping track of version changes and various dependency constraints imposed on the system, throughout its development life cycle is very challenging. Current approaches are ad hoc and proprietary, and there exists no standard for specifying valid software configurations. We prop...

This article presents a configuration management concept for software projects using Lyee methodology. To illustrate this concept, an introduction in configuration management is given. Then, the structure of Lyee programs is defined by sets and their dependencies. From this structure, the actual configuration management concept is deduced and discussed by rendering the structure for an existing...

The checkin/checkout model of typical design databases only distinguishes a global repository with full consistency and global visibility from local workspaces with only local visibility and without consistency constraints. Communicating versions between developers means passing them through the global repository and checking consistency. Passing incomplete objects or prototypes is not supporte...

1 Abstract As the complexity of computer systems has increased, the task of managing those systems has grown to the point where the assistance of the computer itself is required. The diversity of management tasks has, in turn, lead to a diversity of software. In Unix, for example, make(1), rcs(1) and cron(8) each address this issue. Distributed systems expand the realm of connguration managemen...