CLEMMA: the design of a practical configuration librarian

Author

Rander, H.S. ; Campbell, Roy H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

24-27 Oct 1988

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

228

Abstract

A configuration management system organizes large software systems and helps maintain those systems over a long lifetime. The problems that arise in the design of such a tool include the manipulation and accurate representation of system configurations, versions and derivation histories. Access control, the large quantities of data, and the evolutionary nature of software development all help to compound the problems. The SAGA (Software Automation, Generation and Administration) project has developed CLEMMA, a configuration librarian. CLEMMA uses relational database technology to provide a powerful but compact configuration management system. It is based on an extended relational model of software development in which components have an object-oriented representation. The authors present the design of CLEMMA and discuss its solutions to the problems of configuration management

Keywords

programming environments; project support environments; relational databases; CLEMMA; SAGA; Software Automation, Generation and Administration; configuration librarian; configuration management system; derivation histories; extended relational model; large software systems; manipulation; object-oriented representation; relational database technology; representation; software development; versions; Access control; Automation; Energy management; History; Object oriented modeling; Power system management; Programming; Relational databases; Software systems; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1988., Proceedings of the Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0879-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1988.10166

Filename

10166