Visual formalisms for configuration management
Michael W. Godfrey · 1993
1 Introduction Configuration management plays a key role in the engineering of large software systems; it comprises several sub-areas, including versioning, access control, system modelling and system building. While several commercial software development environments have successfully attacked many of the problems of configuration management, most approaches have been tightly integrated with a particular set of tools. Consequently, there is a need for notations and tools for configuration management that are both powerful and intuitive yet not bound to particular environments or languages. Visual notations hold promise, yet they have not yet been investigated very thoroughly.1