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Most organizations do not have a comprehensive or effective approach to the management of the software construction process. This paper describes QEF (Quod Erat Faciendum, that which was to be made), a system for large scale software construction developed by the author over the last twelve years and in use at a number of major organizations. The rationale, strengths and weaknesses of the architecture are discussed.
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Tibrook, D. (1996). An architecture for a construction system. In: Sommerville, I. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0023082
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