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Software Configuration Management Using Vesta

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Allan Heydon

    1. Guidewire Software, San Mateo, USA

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  2. Timothy Mann

    1. VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, USA

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  3. Roy Levin

    1. Microsoft Research-Silicon Valley Center, Mountain View, USA

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  4. Yuan Yu

    1. Microsoft Research-Silicon Valley Center, Mountain View, USA

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  • Presents a comprehensive survey of the Vesta system for software configuration management

Part of the book series: Monographs in Computer Science (MCS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introducing Vesta

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Introduction

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 5-11

    3. Essential Background

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 13-20

    4. The Architecture of Vesta

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 21-30

  3. The User’s View of Vesta

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-33
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    2. Managing Sources and Versions

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 35-58

    3. System Description Language

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 59-69

    4. Building Systems in Vesta

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 71-88

  4. Inside Vesta

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-91
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    2. Inside the Repository

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 93-111

    3. Incremental Building

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 113-146

    4. Weeder

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 147-156

  5. Assessing Vesta

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-159
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    2. Competing Systems

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 161-169

    3. Vesta System Performance

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 171-195

    4. Conclusions

      • Allan Heydon, Timothy Mann, Roy Levin, Yuan Yu
      Pages 197-201

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 203-262
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About this book

The core technologies underlying software configuration managementhave changed little in more than two decades. Developmentorganizations struggle to manage ever­ larger software systems with tools that were never designed to handle them. Their development processes are warped by the inadequacies of their building and version management tools. Developers must take time from writing and debugging code to cope with the operational problems thrust upon them by their build system's inade­ quate support of large-scale concurrent development. Vesta, a novel system for large-scale software configuration management, offers a better solution. Through a unique integration of building and version management facilities, Vestaconstructs software of any size repeatably, incrementally, and consis­ tently. Since modem software development occurs worldwide, Vesta supports con­ current, multi-site, distributed development. Vesta's core facilities are methodologi­ cally neutral, allowing development organizations a wide range of flexibility in the way they arrange their code repositories and structure the building of system com­ ponents. In short, Vesta advances the state of the art in configuration management.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Guidewire Software, San Mateo, USA

    Allan Heydon

  • VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, USA

    Timothy Mann

  • Microsoft Research-Silicon Valley Center, Mountain View, USA

    Roy Levin, Yuan Yu

About the authors

This monograph, and accompanying open-source software Vesta, addresses two core problems in developing large software projects: 1) versioning and 2) building. In order to develop and sustain automated, scalable "software configuration management (SCM) systems," software systems engineers need to understand how large software code bases can be effectively managed and evolved. Using a well-known open-source software prototype system (Vesta developed at Digital and Compaq Systems Research Lab), the authors meticulously assess, develop, and demonstrate key concepts and methods to achieve such evolvable and scalable software systems. The concepts, lessons, and executable code allow researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the problems, and solution domains possible, for large-scale software construction practices.

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