This book consists of a collection of thoroughly refereed revised papers selected from the submissions for presentation at the 6th International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, SCM-6, held in conjunction with ICSE '96 in Berlin, Germany, in March 1996.
Besides 17 full papers, the book contains an introductory overview and 6 selected position papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on versioning models and experience, version space management, CM databases and workspaces, distributed configuration management, industrial experience with CM systems, and CM challenges for the 21st century.
Author(s): Ian Sommerville (auth.), Ian Sommerville (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1167
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 299
Tags: Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Business Information Systems
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Smooth operations with square operators — The version set model in ICE....Pages 8-30
Fine grained version control of configurations in COOP/Orm....Pages 31-48
An empirical study of delta algorithms....Pages 49-66
Inter-File Branching a practical method for representing variants....Pages 67-75
An architecture for a construction system....Pages 76-87
Configuring versioned software products....Pages 88-109
HiCoV: Managing the version space....Pages 110-126
Work space management in Software Engineering Environments....Pages 127-138
System compositions and shared dependencies....Pages 139-153
Infrastructure for wide-area software development....Pages 154-165
Distributed revision control via the World Wide Web....Pages 166-174
The asgard system: Activity-based configuration management....Pages 175-186
Experience report on the maturity of configuration management for embedded software....Pages 187-197
Experiences with the use of a configuration language....Pages 198-219
Introducing configuration management in an organisation....Pages 220-230
An odyssey towards best SCM practices: The big picture....Pages 231-238
Best practice for a configuration management solution....Pages 239-255
Fully supported recursive workspaces....Pages 256-261
Experience of using a simple SCM tool in a complex development environment....Pages 262-263
Configuration management as ‘glueware’ for development of client/server-applications in heterogeneous and distributed environments....Pages 264-271
Post-Deployment Configuration Management....Pages 272-276
Change sets revisited and configuration management of complex documents....Pages 277-281
Modeling the sharing of versions....Pages 282-290
