Configuration Management - lecture 2b:

The study metaphor

Literature

• Lars Bendix: The Study metaphore - Introduction to the personal workspace, Lecture note in Software Configuration Management, version 0.90
  Study this lecture note. Make sure that you understand:
  • the basic versioning concepts
  • the checkout-checkin model
  • the long transaction model
  • the different co-ordination strategies
  • how different working environments can be set up
  • how repetitive tasks can be automated
• Wayne Babich: Software Configuration Management - Coordination for Team Productivity, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986.
  Chapter 5: Baselines and Private Workspaces.
  Study this chapter. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the need for and the distinction between baselines and the private workspace
• Lars Bendix, Otto Vinter: Configuration Management from a Developer's Perspective, in proceedings of EuroSTAR, Stockholm, Sweden, November 19-23, 2001.
  You might want to go back to this paper and (re)study:
  • the study metaphor and theory

Lecture slides in pdf.

Lecture summary

• feedback on selected exercises OH
• SCM Hall of Fame
• SCM definition of the week
• introduction to group project
• the study, metaphor, principles and activities
• examples
• roles, workspace, reproducibility and doing the work

Quote of the day

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