Software Configuration Management Using Vesta

• Main Authors: Heydon, Allan (Author), Mann, Timothy (Author), Levin, Roy (Author), Yu, Yuan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Monographs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Software Engineering.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

This book presents a comprehensive survey of the Vesta system for software configuration management (SCM). Vesta, unlike other SCM systems, is specifically designed to handle very large software projects comprising tens of millions of lines of code and beyond. Researchers in the field of software en...

Table of Contents:

• Introducing Vesta
• Essential Background
• The Architecture of Vesta
• The User’s View of Vesta
• Managing Sources and Versions
• System Description Language
• Building Systems in Vesta
• Inside Vesta
• Inside the Repository
• Incremental Building
• Weeder
• Assessing Vesta
• Competing Systems
• Vesta System Performance
• Conclusions.