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In this paper we address the problem of representing the evolution of a software project in order to provide tools for project management and maintainance.
In particular, we focus on a System for Access and Version Control (called SCAV), and provide several functionalities for querying and manipulating the history of a project developed under SCAV. Our realization is based on a representation of the history within the framework of the Event Calculus, and the evolution of the software project is described as a sequence of SCAV commands. The implementation is in PROLOG, which allows for a direct formulation of the rules of the Event Calculus.
A major goal of our work is to demonstrate the power of a knowledge-based representation of the information concerning the project, for the design and implementation of tools for project management.
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Nardi, D., Tucci, M. (1989). An application of the event calculus for representing the history of a software project. In: Ghezzi, C., McDermid, J.A. (eds) ESEC '89. ESEC 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 387. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51635-2_39
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