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Integrating configuration management into a generic environment

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SDE 4: Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments

Pages 229 - 237

https://doi.org/10.1145/99277.99298

Published: 01 October 1990 Publication History

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The software development process consists of a number of complex activities for work coordination, organization, communication, and disciplines that are essential for achieving quality software, maintaining system integrity, and keeping the software process manageable. Software Engineering Environments can be helpful instruments in pursuing these goals when they are integrated, open to extension, and capable of adapting to real processes as they occur in software development projects.

Adaptability and the ability to perform adaptations rapidly are crucial features of SEEs. In this paper we are presenting an approach to rapid environment extension that provides the means to capture characteristics of software development processes and realize environment support for these processes by using existing tools. An object oriented environment infrastructure is the basis for achieving these goals while providing and maintaining an integrated behavior of the environment. The presented approach is demonstrated by defining a set of classes for version control and configuration management that model the behavior of an existing configuration management toolkit.

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Integrating configuration management into a generic environment
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. System management
        Quality assurance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
    2. Software configuration management and version control systems

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SDE 4: Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments

October 1990

248 pages

ISBN:089791418X

DOI:10.1145/99277

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 15, Issue 6
Dec. 1990
248 pages
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DOI:10.1145/99278
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