Supporting aggregation in fine grained software configuration management

MC Chu-Carroll, J Wright, D Shields - ACM SIGSOFT Software …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
MC Chu-Carroll, J Wright, D Shields
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 2002dl.acm.org
Fine-grained software configuration management offers substantial benefits for large-scale
collaborative software development, enabling a variety of interesting and useful features
including complexity management, support for aspect-oriented software development, and
support for communication and coordination within software engineering teams, described
in [4]. However, fine granularity by itself is not sufficient to achieve these benefits. Most of the
benefits of fine granularity result from the ability to combine fine-grained artifacts in various …
Fine-grained software configuration management offers substantial benefits for large-scale collaborative software development, enabling a variety of interesting and useful features including complexity management, support for aspect-oriented software development, and support for communication and coordination within software engineering teams, described in [4]. However, fine granularity by itself is not sufficient to achieve these benefits. Most of the benefits of fine granularity result from the ability to combine fine-grained artifacts in various ways: supporting multiple overlapping organizations of program source by combining fine-grained artifacts into virtual source files (VSFs); supporting coordination by allowing developers to precisely mark the set of artifacts affected by a change; associating products from different phases of the development process; etc.In this paper, we describe how a general aggregation mechanism can be used to support the various functionality enabled by fine grained SCM. We present a set of requirements that an aggregation facility must provide in order to yield these benefits, and we provide a description of the implementation of such an aggregation system in our experimental SCM system.
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