Accumulative versioning file system Moraine and its application to metrics environment MAME

It is essential to manage versions of software products created during software development. There are various versioning tools actually used in these days, although most of them require the developers to issue management commands for consistent versioning. In this paper, we present a novel versioning file system Moraine, which accumulatively and automatically collects all files created or modified. Those files are versioned and stored as compressed forms. The older versions are easily retrieved from Moraine by the time-stamps or tags if required. Using Moraine system, we have developed a metrics (measurement) environment called MAME (Moraine As a Metrics Environment). MAME can collect various metrics data for on-going or past projects, since its basis, Moraine, is able to retrieve all versions of all products (files). Both Moraine and MAME have been implemented. Using these systems, we have evaluated the performance of Moraine and MAME with various test data and student project ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGSOFT
• Authors: Tetsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Matsushita, Katsuro Inoue
• Keywords: MAME, Metrics Environment, Moraine, SIGSOFT 2000, Software Engineering