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Software Configuration Management (SCM 1996)

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Despite recent advances in software configuration management (SCM), constructing consistent configurations of large and complex versioned software products still remains a challenge. We provide an overview of existing approaches which address this problem. These approaches are compared by means of a taxonomy which is based on an analogy to deductive databases: construction of a configuration corresponds to evaluation of a query against a versioned database with stored version selection rules.

This work was carried out during a research stay at NTH. Support from NTH is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Computer Systems and Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), N-7034, Trondheim

    Reidar Conradi

  2. Lehrstuhl für Informatik III, RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55, D-52074, Aachen

    Bernhard Westfechtel

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Conradi, R., Westfechtel, B. (1996). Configuring versioned software products. In: Sommerville, I. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0023083

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