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-------+ CVS No Longer: Configuration Management for this Century

ComputingScienceColloquium

Date: December 9, 2004.

Time: 11:45

Room: BBL 471

-------+++ Speaker: André van der Hoek

-------+++ Title: CVS No Longer: Configuration Management for this Century

-------+++ Abstract

Current state-of-the-art configuration management systems still   follow the traditional paradigms set forth by early systems such   as RCS and CVS.  While much advanced functionality has been   developed since, little has changed in the terms of the role of   configuration management as an activity that exclusively focuses   on managing evolving source code.  This view is changing, and  changing dramatically.  Component-based software engineering,   agile software development, the need to precisely manage a   system after it has been deployed, and the need to manage   systems that adapt themselves at run-time are all examples of   pressures for the field of configuration management to   significantly reinvent itself.  In this talk, we discuss our   approach to developing novel configuration management solutions.   Key to our approach are (a) a focus on managing changes across   all activities in the software life cycle, (b) the use of   versioned software architecture as a unifying abstraction, and   (c) the use of awareness to continuously coordinate developers'   activities. 

--------+++ Biography

André van der Hoek is an assistant professor in the Department   of Informatics of the Donald Bren School of Information and   Computer Sciences, and a faculty member of the Institute for   Software Research, both at the University of California, Irvine.   He holds a joint B.S. and M.S. degree in Business-Oriented   Computer Science from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the   Netherlands and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the   University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests   include configuration management, software architecture, design,  product line architectures, configurable distributed systems,   and software engineering education. He has developed several CM   systems (including NUCM, SRM, Palantír, TWICS, and MCCM), was   chair of SCM-10, and is co-editor of the Configuration   Management Impact report. He is on the program committee for   ICSE 2004, ICSE 2005, and FSE-12, and has developed Problems   and Programmers, an educational software engineering card game.    He is also the principal designer of the new B.S. in Informatics  at UC Irvine.

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