SubCM: A Tool for Improved Visibility of Software Change in an Industrial Setting
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Abstract: Existing software Configuration Management (CM) tools are limited in the support they provide for configuration and change management of hierarchically structured software systems. This paper describes a framework for CM of subsystems logically coherent collections of software development artefacts, including code, documentation and test sets. The goal is to provide visibility of changes at intermediate levels between whole-system and source-code levels, thereby reducing the complexity of the build, V&V and change management processes. The framework supports characterisation of subsystems and changes to subsystems, and provides hooks into change tracking processes.