System Configuration Management: 9th International Symposium, SCM-9 Toulouse, France, September 5-7, 1999 Proceedings: 1675 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1675) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 354066484X ISBN 13: 9783540664840

Publisher: Springer, 1999

Synopsis

This workshop series is now over ten years old, which is a pretty long time for a very focussed topic: Configuration Management. The first conference took place in 1988 (Grassau, Germany) and the topics were focussed on version control and rebuilding. Many people consider that SCM is one of the few areas of software engineering that can be considered to be really successful. Products, that more or less fulfill their p- pose, exist, and everybody agrees that they are now mandatory for a successful so- ware project. Indeed, during the second half of the nineties, SCM has entered a maturation phase, in which good commercial products have been incorporating many of the features - signed and discussed at previous conferences of this workshop. With the generali- tion of commercial products, the question now is: What are the objectives of a sci- tific workshop on this topic? Is there any more research to be done in SCM today? This ninth volume in the series reflects pretty well the current state and mood in the CM community. There are an unprecedented number of papers discussing the current state of the art and trying to identify research directions (session 6). On some core topics, like versioning (session 3), and following SCM8 tracks, papers present work on unified models. Versioning models, after years of raging discussions, now seem to have found a consensus.

About this title

Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on System Configuration Management, SCM-9, held in Toulouse, France in September 1999.The 17 revised full papers presented together with a tutorial were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on the Web and distribution, experience and tools, versioning and models, new developments, and research status and furture directions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 354066484X
• ISBN 13: 9783540664840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Estublier Jacky