Sixth International Workshop on Software Configuration Management

Berlin, 25th and 26th March, 1996

The sixth international workshop on software configuration management will be held in Berlin in March 1996 in conjunction with ICSE.

The theme of the workshop will be dissemination where researchers will discuss advanced research and practitioners will bring their experience of SCM and their CM problems to the meeting.

We don't want the workshop to be a mini-conference where we spend all our time listening to papers presented by participants. Rather, we will ask a selected number of participants to present their work as an introduction to discussion sessions where, we hope, everyone will give their views on the issues covered.

To help with this objective of dissemination, all those wishing to attend the workshop should submit, by 16th March, a 1-2 page position paper discussing either their CM problems, their practical experiences or their work in this area. This should be submitted on paper or electronically in either ASCII or Postscript to:

Ian Sommerville
Computing Dept.
Lancaster University
LANCASTER LA1 4YR, UK
Email: is@comp.lancs.ac.uk, Phone: +44-1524 593795, Fax: +44-1524 593608

The Proceedings of the workshop will be published, probably by Springer as an LNCS who have published the proceedings of previous workshops. These will include a workshop report, accepted papers and a selection of the position papers submitted by participants. Preprints will be distributed to all participants.

Preliminary SCM6 programme:

Detailed organisation of the sessions will be done by the session chairs, and will include both paper presentations and discussions.

The general format of each session will be geared to discussion rather than paper presentation. We will ask one presenter to make a 15 minute presentation of their work with 5 minute summaries from others. This will give the audience a feel for work in this area. We will then open the discussion for the remainder of the session for your participation.

Monday 25th March

1355-1400 Welcome by Ian Sommerville.

1400-1530 Session 1: Versioning Models and Experiences, chair: Walter F. Tichy.

  • Andreas Zeller: "Smooth Operations with Square Operators - The Version Set Model in ICE".
  • Boris Magnusson and U. Asklund: "Fine Grained Version Control of Configurations in COOP/Orm".
  • J.J. Hunt, K-P Vo, and W.F. Tichy: "An Empirical Study of Delta Algorithms".
  • C. Seiwald: "Inter-file Branching - A Practical Method for Representing Branches".

    1530-1600 Break.

    1600-1730 Session 2: Version Space Management chair: Jacky Estublier.

  • D. Tilbrook: "A Better Architecture for a Construction System".
  • Bernhard Westfechtel and Reidar Conradi: "Configuring Versioned Software Products".
  • Bjoern Munch: "HiCoV: Managing the Version Space".

    1730-1800 Closing discussions of first day, chair: Jacky Estublier.

    Tuesday 26th March

    0900-1030 Session 3: CM Databases and Workspaces, chair: Reidar Conradi.

  • Jacky Estublier: "Work Space Management in Software Engineering Environments".
  • Dewayne E. Perry: "System Compositions and Shared Dependencies".

    1030-1100 Break.

    1100-1230 Session 4: Distributed CM, chair Susan A. Dart.

  • D. Belanger, D. Korn and H. Rao: "Infrastructure for Wide-Area Software Development
  • J. Reuter, S. Haenssgen, J. Hunt and W. Tichy: "Distributed Revision Control via the WWW".
  • Josephine Micallef and Geoffrey Clemm: "The Asgard System: Activity-based Configuration Management".

    1230-1400 Lunch, at your liberty.

    1400-1530 Session 5: Industrial Experiences with CM Systems, chair: Stu Feldman.

  • A. Auer and J. Taramaa: "Experiments on the Maturity of Configuration Management of Embedded Software".
  • Bjoern Gulla and Joe Gorman: "Experiences with the use of a configuration language"
  • A. Persson: "PDM contra CM, any differences".

    1530-1600 Break.

    1600-1730 Session 6: CM Challenges for the 21st Century, chair: Ian Sommerville.

  • Sissel Kolvik: "Introducing Configuration Management in an Organisation".
  • T. Lee: "CMM..SCM.KPA: A Xerox Odyssey".
  • Susan A. Dart: "Best Practice for a CM Solution".

    1730-1745 Final discussion and remarks, chair: Ian Sommerville.

    1745-1800 Break -- the closed SCM6 workshop is finished.

    1800-1930 Final Session: Summarising CM tools, chair: Ian Sommerville.

  • Susan A. Dart and others: "Introduction to the theme".

    This session will be open to all ICSE'18 participants.

    We hope that you will able to participate in this workshop and give us the benefit of your experience. To sign-up go through normal ICSE'18 procedures, see e.g. http://www.gmd.de/Events/ICSE18/ and remember to send your position paper by 16th March.