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Version Inconsistency in Large Systems

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Every programmer, sooner or later, will spend hours, days, or even weeks searching for a bug that turns out to be caused by failing to recompile a module after a change; hence the popularity of tools like make [2], which help the programmer restore a system to a consistent state after changes to one or more source modules. However, for large systems, the cost of restoring consistency after a change can be quite large and sometimes prohibitive. We claim that inconsistency in large software systems is common during development, and that therefore we need methods to manage inconsistency, rather than avoid it.

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  1. R. W. Schwanke
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  1. Hauptbereichs Zentrale Aufgaben Informationstechnik, Siemens AG, München, Deutschland

    Heinz Schwärtzel (Leiter) (Leiter)

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Schwanke, R.W., Kaiser, G. (1986). Version Inconsistency in Large Systems. In: Schwärtzel, H. (eds) Informatik in der Praxis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93336-3_9

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