Transaction-Oriented Configuration Management: A Case Study.

Abstract

Software configuration management (SCM) is a key element of the software development process. A number of new configuration management techniques in commercial SCM tools and environments with SCM capabilities have been observed. This report illustrates some of the advances in SCM concepts by example of a particular commercial system: the Sun Network Software Environment (NSE). NSE embodies a transaction model of configuration management. In order to demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of the transaction model, NSE is applied to three problem areas for configurations management: adaption for parallel development and team support, development and maintenance in software families and development in a distributed and heterogeneous network.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA235510

Entities

People

  • Grace Downey
  • Peter Feiler

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Classification
  • Compilers
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Systems
  • Debugging
  • Heterogeneous Networks
  • Networks
  • Object Code
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing

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  • Computer science

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