The Vesta Approach To Software Configuration Management

The Vesta Approach to Software Configuration Management

Software Configuration Management Using Vesta

The core technologies underlying software configuration managementhave changed little in more than two decades. Developmentorganizations struggle to manage ever larger software systems with tools that were never designed to handle them. Their development processes are warped by the inadequacies of their building and version management tools. Developers must take time from writing and debugging code to cope with the operational problems thrust upon them by their build system's inade quate support of large-scale concurrent development. Vesta, a novel system for large-scale software configuration management, offers a better solution. Through a unique integration of building and version management facilities, Vestaconstructs software of any size repeatably, incrementally, and consis tently. Since modem software development occurs worldwide, Vesta supports con current, multi-site, distributed development. Vesta's core facilities are methodologi cally neutral, allowing development organizations a wide range of flexibility in the way they arrange their code repositories and structure the building of system com ponents. In short, Vesta advances the state of the art in configuration management.

Software Configuration Management

This book constitutes the joint post-proceedings and proceedings of the 10th and 11th International Symposium on Software Configuration Management, SCM 2001 and SCM 2003, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2001 and in Portland, OR, USA in May 2003. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on version models, architecture, concurrency and distribution, component-based systems, education, and new applications.