Evaluate Two Software Configuration Management Tools: MS Perforce and Subversion

Author

Yue, Hui ; Liu, Xuan ; Zhao, Shuya

Author_Institution

Railway Tech. Coll., Lanzhou Jiaotong Univ., Lanzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Software is easy to change to compare with hardware systems because software is not constrained, as hardware, by the physical laws. Therefore Software Configuration Management (SCM) becomes paramount today to track, control changes in software to ensure that software is developed with limited budget, acceptable cost, and required time frame. In this paper, we concentrate on the evaluation of two popular configuration management tools: MS Perforce and Subversion. The evaluation follows a systematic evaluation procedure and the qualitative and quantitative results are carefully reported. The proposed and applied evaluation procedure can be reused for similar objectives.

Keywords

configuration management; software performance evaluation; software tools; MS Perforce; Subversion; hardware systems; software configuration management tools; systematic evaluation procedure; Documentation; IEEE standards; Licenses; Servers; Software; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5391-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5392-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISE.2010.5676864

Filename

5676864