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The novel aspect of the Asgard configuration management system is the integration of (1) the use of activities—named objects created by developers to represent development tasks—to define system configurations, (2) the detection of inconsistencies when activities are assembled into new configurations, and (3) dynamic controlled sharing of work products.
In Asgard, a developer specifies the source versions that he wants to see by means of a baseline and a list of activities. A baseline is a fixed set of immutable source versions. An activity is a cluster of versions produced in the course of a specific development task. Activity-based configuration management provides a simple and intuitive way for developers to specify the context for their work, to track project status, and to produce accurate information for system maintainers.
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Micallef, J., Clemm, G.M. (1996). The asgard system: Activity-based configuration management. In: Sommerville, I. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0023089
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