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This book describes Vesta [26,28,43], a system for software versioning and building that scales to accommodate large projects, is easy to use, and guarantees repeatable, incremental and consistent builds. Vesta embodies the belief that reliable, incremental, consistent building is overwhelmingly important for software construction and that its absence from conventional development environments has significantly interfered with the production of large systems. Consequently, Vesta focuses on the two central challenges of large-scale software development — versioning and building — and offers a novel, integrated solution.
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Heydon, A., Mann, T., Levin, R., Yu, Y. (2006). Introduction. In: Software Configuration Management Using Vesta. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30852-4_1
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