Towards a Versioning Model for Component-based Software Assembly

The world of software development has rapidly changed in the last few years due to the adoption of component-based technologies. The classical software configuration management, which deals with source code versioning, becomes insufficient in the world where most components are distributed in a binary form. This paper focuses on solving versioning issues in the SOFA/DCUP component environment, however, many ideas introduced in this paper are applicable in other component-based environments. The paper incorporates the following versioning issues: component and type identification, component and type evolution, component version description model and component retrieving based on the version description model. It also outlines a prototype repository designed as a proof of concept.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Jaroslav Gergic
• Keywords: Component Version Description, ICSM 2003, SOFA/DCUP Component Environment, Software Engineering, Version Description Model