Rapidly evolving software and the OVERSEE environment

  • Authors:

  • Steven Wartik

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

  • Venue:
  • SDE 2 Proceedings of the second ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

During its lifetime, a software system will sometimes need to “rapidly evolve,” that is, undergo a quick set of changes. Making the changes rapidly is difficult, especially if one's software development policies are rigorous; the need for test reports, signatures, etc., seems to create interminable delays. In this paper, we argue that much of the problem stems not from such policies, but from a lack of consideration to information flow in software environments. We present a configuration management environment called OVERSEE, and discuss how it helps solve the problems of information flow.