A unifying model for consistent distributed software development environments
Jonathan Walpole, Gordon S. Blair, Javad Malik, John R. Nicol · 1988
The increase in size and complexity of software projects over recent years has lead to the need for Software Development Environments (SDEs). SDEs are intended to provide assistance in the development of large software systems involving teams of people. It is generally agreed that SDE's should be built on a distributed base. However, the distribution of computer systems introduces several problems which make it very difficult to maintain the consistency of data.