Integrated Consistency Constraints Checking in a Complicated Development Environment

Maintaining consistency constraints in a complicated development environment is ever an open problem, as different development tools are usually involved which in turn use various files or databases to store their data. To solve this problem, current XML technology was used to build a repository which manages all data of a development effort. XML queries were also presented to state consistency constraints in this paper and a generic light-weighted checking tool was provided to perform queries and to present results, which was designed to be flexibly tailored to the requirements of different projects and integrated in a Web-based, distributed environment.