CAREER: Continuous Change Management of Component-Based Software

配置管理（CM）是一种软件工程规程，其中心是管理在软件开发项目过程中不断产生和更改的工件的演化。从组件集中开发软件和在交付给客户后对软件进行管理的结合，从根本上改变了配置管理的本质，打破了它的几个基本假设。解决这些问题，本研究的目标是开发并经验地评估模型、策略和工具，这些模型、策略和工具将为创建下一代配置管理系统奠定基础——这些系统能够在其整个生命周期内以无缝和连续的方式管理基于组件的软件。该研究假设体系结构描述语言是提供此功能的关键：它们创建了一个抽象，通过该抽象可以提供所有CM功能。具体地说，我们建议构建基于体系结构的CM模型，关联新的开发和部署策略，以及演示和评估所需的支持工具。部分研究将用于为提案的教育方面提供种子：建立本科生研究工厂，在该工厂中，本科生团队将接受开展研究项目的教育。

Configuration management (CM) is a software engineering discipline that centers on managing the evolution of the artifacts that are continuously produced and changed over the course of a software development project. The combined move towards developing software out of sets of components and managing software after it has been delivered to its customers radically changes the nature of CM, breaking several of its fundamental assumptions.Addressing these issues, the objective of this research is to develop and empirically evaluate the models, policies, and tools that will lay the foundation for the creation of the next generation of configuration management systems---those capable of managing, in a seamless and continuous fashion, component-based software throughout its life time. The research hypothesizes that architecture description languages are the key to providing this functionality: they create a single abstraction through which all CM functionality can be provided. Specifically, we propose to build architecture-based CM models, associated new development and deployment policies, and the supporting tools necessary for demonstration and evaluation.Parts of the research will be used to seed the educational aspects of the proposal: to establish the undergraduate research factory in which teams of undergraduate students will be educated in carrying out research projects.