This workshop series is now over ten years old, which is a pretty long time for a very focussed topic: Configuration Management. The first conference took place in 1988 (Grassau, Germany) and the topics were focussed on version control and rebuilding. Many people consider that SCM is one of the few areas of software engineering that can be considered to be really successful. Products, that more or less fulfill their p- pose, exist, and everybody agrees that they are now mandatory for a successful so- ware project. Indeed, during the second half of the nineties, SCM has entered a maturation phase, in which good commercial products have been incorporating many of the features - signed and discussed at previous conferences of this workshop. With the generali- tion of commercial products, the question now is: What are the objectives of a sci- tific workshop on this topic? Is there any more research to be done in SCM today? This ninth volume in the series reflects pretty well the current state and mood in the CM community. There are an unprecedented number of papers discussing the current state of the art and trying to identify research directions (session 6). On some core topics, like versioning (session 3), and following SCM8 tracks, papers present work on unified models. Versioning models, after years of raging discussions, now seem to have found a consensus.
Author(s): Jacky Estublier (auth.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1675
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 260
Tags: Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems
Content Change Management: Problems for Web Systems....Pages 1-16
Experiences; Distribution Development and Software Configuration Management....Pages 17-33
Applying Software Configuration Management in Web Sites Development: A Case Study....Pages 34-37
Software Configuration Management Risk Analysis before Relocating the Porting of Product’s Family....Pages 38-49
Why Do Some Mature Organizations Not Use Mature CM Tools....Pages 50-65
An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA....Pages 66-85
A Branching/Merging Strtegy for Parallel Software Development....Pages 86-99
The Unified Extensional Versioning Model....Pages 100-122
Deployment Descriptions in a World of COTS and Open Source....Pages 123-137
VTML for Fine-Grained Change Tracking in Editing Structed Documents....Pages 139-156
Globel Names: Support for Managing Software in a World of Virtual Organizationss....Pages 157-171
Distributed Objects for Concurrent Engineering....Pages 172-185
Goals for a Configuration Management Network Protocol....Pages 186-204
CM Strategies for RAD Version 1.0....Pages 204-216
Software Configuration Management: State of the Art, State of the Practice....Pages 217-227
SCM: Status and Future Challenges....Pages 228-231
New Challenges for Configuration Management....Pages 232-243
The 3 Software Configuration Management Implementation Lvels....Pages 244-254
