Using the Temporal Versions Model in a Software Configuration Management Environment

• Fabrício Ávila da Silva UFRGS
• Raquel Vieira Coelho Costa UFRGS
• Nina Edelweiss UFRGS
• Clesio Saraiva dos Santos UFRGS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2003.23868

Resumo

Temporal Versions Model (TVM) is an object-oriented data model with versioning facilities, allowing revisions and project alternatives, and temporal features, used to maintain the history of the system evolution. This paper presents TVM under a Software Configuration Management (SCM) perspective, compares this model with available SCM tools, and describes why TVM is adequate to be used as the basis of an SCM environment. A modeling example and the implementation of TVM on a commercial Database Management System (DBMS), which is an ongoing work, are also presented.

Palavras-chave: Software Configuration Management, Temporal Versions Model, object-oriented modeling

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