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SubCM: A Tool for Improved Visibility of Software Change in an Industrial Setting
October 2004 (vol. 30 no. 10)
pp. 675-693
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Hagen V?lzer, Anthony MacDonald, Brenton Atchison, Andrew Hanlon, Peter Lindsay, Paul Strooper, "SubCM: A Tool for Improved Visibility of Software Change in an Industrial Setting," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 675-693, October, 2004.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TSE.2004.67,
author = {Hagen V?lzer and Anthony MacDonald and Brenton Atchison and Andrew Hanlon and Peter Lindsay and Paul Strooper},
title = {SubCM: A Tool for Improved Visibility of Software Change in an Industrial Setting},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
volume = {30},
number = {10},
issn = {0098-5589},
year = {2004},
pages = {675-693},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2004.67},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Software Configuration Management is the discipline of managing large collections of software development artefacts from which software products are built. Software configuration management tools typically deal with artefacts at fine levels of granularity—such as individual source code files—and assist with coordination of changes to such artefacts. This paper describes a lightweight tool, designed to be used on top of a traditional file-based configuration management system. The add-on tool support enables users to flexibly define new hierarchical views of product structure, independent of the underlying artefact-repository structure. The tool extracts configuration and change data with respect to the user-defined hierarchy, leading to improved visibility of how individual subsystems have changed. The approach yields a range of new capabilities for build managers, and verification and validation teams. The paper includes a description of our experience using the tool in an organization that builds large embedded software systems.

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Index Terms:
Software configuration management, software maintenance, verification and validation.
Citation:
Hagen V?lzer, Anthony MacDonald, Brenton Atchison, Andrew Hanlon, Peter Lindsay, Paul Strooper, "SubCM: A Tool for Improved Visibility of Software Change in an Industrial Setting," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 675-693, Oct. 2004, doi:10.1109/TSE.2004.67
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