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Configuration management in an open environment

Gestion de configurations dans un environnement ouvert

  • II — Configuration Management
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ESEC '87 (ESEC 1987)

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Abstract

We describe a configuration management system which manages and actually uses information which, in traditional approaches is only informal documentation. Its main features are: (i) a database to represent the generic structure of the designed system, the characteristics of the versions of the system components, and rules which describe explicitly the compatibility constraints between versions, (ii) a selection of versions to construct an instance of the system seen as query on that database, (iii) rules specifying how to build products, these rules are associated to configuration types instead of particular configurations. These facilities are compared with those of representative systems.

This work is funded in part by the “Services de la Programmation de la Politique Scientifique” under Contract KBAR/SOFT/4.

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  1. Philips Research Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium

    Y. Bernard, M. Lacroix, P. Lavency & M. Vanhoedenaghe

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  1. Y. Bernard
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Howard Nichols Dan Simpson

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Bernard, Y., Lacroix, M., Lavency, P., Vanhoedenaghe, M. (1987). Configuration management in an open environment. In: Nichols, H., Simpson, D. (eds) ESEC '87. ESEC 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022096

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