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MCCM - Modularly Configurable Configuration Management

Student: Ronald van der Lingen

Advisor: André van der Hoek

Abstract: A configuration management policy specifies the procedures through which a user evolves artifacts stored in a configuration management system. Different configuration management systems typically use different policies, and new policies continue to be developed. A problem in the development of these new policies is that existing policies (and their implementations) typically cannot be reused. As a basis for a future solution, we present a new configuration management system architecture that focuses on modularly specified policies. In particular, policies consist of a set of constraint modules, which enforce the desired repository structure, and a set of action modules, which govern the desired user interaction. New policies can be developed by combining relevant existing modules from existing policies with new modules that specify the unique aspects of the new policy. We demonstrate how different configuration management policies can be effectively constructed this way.

Bio: Ronald van der Lingen is an international visitor at the school of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine for a year. He is currently pursuing a joint B.S. and M.S. degree in Business-Oriented Computer Science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests lie in software configuration management, particularly in developing a new generic modular CM architecture.