CAREER: Automatic Generation of Software Configuration Management Repositories

CCR-0133991 CAREER：软件配置管理存储库的自动生成Emmet James Whitehead对配置管理(CM)系统进行了25年的研究和开发，留下了丰富的数据模型、系统体系结构和实现方法遗产。对现有的关于CM系统的知识进行分析，以提炼出关键的经验教训，然后利用这些知识对CM进行深入的研究。该研究通过对CM系统进行全面的领域分析，并通过开发规范语言和技术来实现CM知识库的自动生成，从而促进了CM知识的成熟。领域模型允许将现有CM系统描述为多维设计权衡空间中的点。这项研究充分详细地描述了关键设计空间，以允许指定设计权衡空间中的一个单点。该规范可以提供给自动生成匹配的CM系统的发电机。研究挑战包括创建存储库规范语言；用于创建识别特定设计选择和解决设计权衡的详细CM系统规范的语言；以及自动创建源代码以实现给定存储库规范的生成器技术的开发。这种自动生成技术为探索CM系统的高级数据模型提供了有用的工具。

CCR-0133991CAREER: Automatic Generation of Software Configuration Management RepositoriesEmmet James WhiteheadTwenty-five years of research and development on Configuration Management(CM) systems has bequeathed a rich legacy of data models, systemarchitectures, and implementation approaches. This existing knowledge aboutCM systems is analyzed to distill out the key lessons, and then leveragedfor advanced research on CM. The research advances the maturity of CMknowledge by performing a comprehensive domain analysis of CM systems, andby developing specification languages and technology to permit automaticgeneration of CM repositories.A domain model permits the characterization of an existing CM system as apoint in a multidimensional design tradeoff space. This research describeskey design spaces in sufficient detail to permit the specification of asingle point in design tradeoff space. This specification can be fed to agenerator that automatically generates a matching CM system. Researchchallenges include the creation of a repository specification language; alanguage for creating detailed CM system specifications that identifyspecific design choices, and resolve design tradeoffs; and the developmentof generator technology that automatically creates source code to implementa given repository specification. This auto-generation technology provides avaluable tool for exploring advanced data models for CM systems.