TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heydon,Allan
AU  - Mann,Timothy
AU  - Levin,Roy
AU  - Yu,Yuan
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Software Configuration Management Using Vesta
T2  - Monographs in Computer Science,
SN  - 9780387308524
AV  - QA75.5-76.95 
U1  - 004.0151 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computer system failures
KW  - Software engineering
KW  - Computers
KW  - Application software
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Theory of Computation
KW  - Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing
KW  - Software Engineering
KW  - System Performance and Evaluation
KW  - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 engineering and specialists in the construction of software development tools will especially benefit from this work, but it will also appeal to those responsible for designing and deploying configuration management solutions for large software systems. Three important but hard-to-achieve properties lie at the heart of Vesta's unique approach to software configuration management: Every build is repeatable Every build is incremental Every build is consistent To realize these properties in a practical SCM system, Vesta provides a novel repository to store the versions of the files that make up an evolving software system and a flexible language for writing modular configuration descriptions that define how the system is put together. This book explains in depth these facilities and the suite of tools that supports them, together with a methodology for applying them in practice. Readers who seek more information about Vesta may download the entire system as well as other publications, reference documents, and user documentation from the Vesta home page at http://www.vestasys.org
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30852-4
ER  -