Hedgehog: An Approach to Maintaining Consistency in Configuration Management Repositories

• Gleiph Ghiotto Lima de Menezes UFF
• Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta UFF

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2012.15338

Abstract

Configuration Management is a discipline traditionally responsible for controlling the software evolution. However, its work cycle, based on check-out, changes, and check-in, is usually supported by manual verifications, which are, in most cases, counterproductive and error prone. Thus, this work proposes an approach that amplifies the traditional work cycle with asynchronous, automatic, and incremental tasks for maintaining the consistency of the repository. Our preliminary results show that our approach was able to identify broken artifacts without a significant delay in the flow of check-ins.

Keywords: Hedgehog, Maintaining Consistency in Repositories, Configuration Management

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