COMAND - A Distributed Configuration Management Framework

Software development is becoming a more and more distributed process, which urgently needs supporting tools in the field of configuration management, software process /workflow management, communication and problem tracking. In this paper we present a new distributed software configuration management framework COMAND. It offers high availability through replication and a mechanism to easily change and adapt the project structure to new business needs. To better understand and formally prove some properties of COMAND, we have modeled it in a formal technique based on distributed graph transformations. This formalism provides an intuitive rule-based description technique mainly for the dynamic behavior of the system on an abstract level. We use it here to model the replication subsystem. 1. Introduction Developing software is not an easily planable process. Not only that software projects are much bigger our days than they were before but stricter quality requirements make it even more ..