Model-Driven Software Configuration Management and Semantic Web in Applied Software Development

Nowadays one of the most important factors of software development is the enhancement of agility. The reason behind this is that modern software development is focused on delivering software to customers as quickly as possible. Software configuration management (SCM) is a set of practices, tools, and techniques designed to control software evolution. In most cases, companies already have the tools and solutions needed to achieve the mentioned goals and the main challenge is to find out how to adopt and implement these tools and solutions in the new projects. This paper presents a new model-driven approach to perform software configuration management using a set of models. Unlike other solutions, this approach is designed to increase the reuse of the existing solutions without any restrictions on the tools being used. Models that represent software configuration management from different levels of abstraction are transformed from one level to another. Authors also investigate how the use of Semantic Web technologies could improve this approach and what benefits they could provide. Lastly, the approach is evaluated in terms of applicability in the field of applied software and further works are defined. Key-Words: Software Configuration Management, Model-Driven Approach, Semantic Web