An Aspect Oriented Configuration Identification Model for Incremental Development

Configuration management is the process of identifying, tracking, and controlling changes to hardware/software configuration items that define needs, evaluate technical and cost feasibility of systems and establish functional requirements. The lack of a static component configuration during each increment in incremental development causes trouble to manage the integrity of those valued hardware/software product outputs. This paper presents an aspect oriented configuration identification to derive a static configuration in incremental development. The discipline and approach for identifying a static structure and its related configuration items are described and tested with a warehouse management system, developed with an incremental development. They are the first functions of hardware/software configuration management activities, which enable a configuration management compliant system, such as product data management (PDM) system, in an incremental development.