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Case Study: Version Control in Component-Based Systems

Case Study: Version Control in Component-Based Systems

Nisha Ratti, Parminder Kaur
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781466629585|ISBN10: 1466629584|EISBN13: 9781466629592
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2958-5.ch016
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Ratti, Nisha, and Parminder Kaur. "Case Study: Version Control in Component-Based Systems." Designing, Engineering, and Analyzing Reliable and Efficient Software, edited by Hardeep Singh and Kulwant Kaur, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 283-297. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2958-5.ch016

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Ratti, N. & Kaur, P. (2013). Case Study: Version Control in Component-Based Systems. In H. Singh & K. Kaur (Eds.), Designing, Engineering, and Analyzing Reliable and Efficient Software (pp. 283-297). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2958-5.ch016

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Ratti, Nisha, and Parminder Kaur. "Case Study: Version Control in Component-Based Systems." In Designing, Engineering, and Analyzing Reliable and Efficient Software, edited by Hardeep Singh and Kulwant Kaur, 283-297. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2958-5.ch016

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Abstract

As software is developed and deployed, it is extremely common for multiple versions of the same software to be deployed in different sites, and for the software’s developers to be working privately on updates. Bugs and other issues with software are often only present in certain versions (because of the fixing of some problems and the introduction of others the program evolves). Therefore, for the purposes of locating and fixing bugs, it is vitally important for the debugger to be able to retrieve and run different versions of the software to determine in which version(s) the problem occurs. All these tasks are related with version control. This case study makes an attempt to show that how Subversion, an open source version control tool, is helpful in tracing the changes processed at different time. This case study also shows the comparison between open source and commercial version control tools.

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