Towards the Model-driven Software Configuration Management Process
Abstract
Software configuration management is one of the most important disciplines within the software development project, which helps control the software evolution process and allows including into the end product only tested and validated changes. To achieve this, software management completes certain tasks. Concrete tools are used for technical implementation of tasks, such as version control systems, servers of continuous integration, compilers, etc. There are situations when some tools or scripts are implemented to support small particular parts of complex software configuration management process without a general picture of total process. Maintenance of such solutions is complex and more expensive than it could be. The study describes a model-driven configuration management approach, which foresees the development of an abstract environment model for the configuration management process that later is transformed to lower abstraction level models and tools are indicated to support the technical process. This approach allows implementing all tools and solutions according to the planned configuration management process and developing reusable solutions.
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Configuration management model; model-driven approach; software configuration management
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