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Software Architecture and Software Configuration Management

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Software Configuration Management (SCM 2001, SCM 2003)

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This paper examines the relations between software architecture and software configuration management. These disciplines overlap because they are both concerned with the structure of a software system being described in terms of components and relationships. On the other hand, they differ with respect to their focus — specific support for programming-in-the-large, versus general support for the management of evolving software objects throughout the whole life cycle. Several problems and alternatives concerning the integration of both disciplines are discussed.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informatik III, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstrasse 55, D-52074, Aachen

    Bernhard Westfechtel

  2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7034, Trondheim, Norway

    Reidar Conradi

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  1. Informatik III, RWTH Aachen, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Bernhard Westfechtel

  2. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    André van der Hoek

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Westfechtel, B., Conradi, R. (2003). Software Architecture and Software Configuration Management. In: Westfechtel, B., van der Hoek, A. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM SCM 2001 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2649. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39195-9_3

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