A flexible transaction model for software engineering

Author

Kaiser, Gail E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

5-9 Feb 1990

Firstpage

560

Lastpage

567

Abstract

It is generally recognized that the classical transaction model, providing atomicity and serializability, is too strong for certain application areas since it unnecessarily restricts concurrency. The author is concerned with supporting cooperative work in multiuser design environments, particularly teams of programmers cooperating to develop and maintain software systems. An extended transaction model that meets the special requirements of software engineering projects is presented, possible implementation techniques are described, and a number of issues regarding the incorporation of such a model into multiuser software development environments are discussed

Keywords

multi-access systems; programming environments; transaction processing; atomicity; classical transaction model; concurrency; cooperative work; extended transaction model; flexible transaction model; multiuser design environments; multiuser software development environments; serializability; software engineering; teams of programmers; Application software; Collaborative work; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Environmental management; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 1990. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2025-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.1990.113511

Filename

113511