A Fine-Grained Version and Confguration Model in Analysis and Design

  • Authors:
  • D. Ohst

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we present a model of version and configurationmanagement in the early phases of software developmentand an implementation of this model. We assumethat software documents are modeled in a fine-grained way,that they are stored as syntax trees in XML files or a repositorysystem, and that tools directly operate on these syntaxtrees. In contrast to file-based systems, structural changesin the document, e.g. the shifting of a method between twoclasses, can be identified in our model. Configurations allowus to manage groups of single modifications; such agroup will mostly correspond to a specific design task or asimilar activity. Configurations are thus a means to establisha connection to a change management system.