Product Administration Through Sable and Nmake
Steve Cichinski, Glenn S. Fowler · AT&T Technical Journal · 1988
Product administration is a strategic technology for managing software products. AT&T has developed two software systems, SABLE and NMAKE, that support a software product throughout its life cycle and contribute to good software project management. SABLE combines the traditional software administration role of source code control and modification request tracking with support for quality assurance, document generation, interproject communications, security, and software cost analysis. Using software components managed by SABLE, NMAKE controls software product manufacture by automatically maintaining source file interdependencies to build an up-to-date product. With SABLE and NMAKE, developers can also share official versions of code while maintaining private development areas.