SWS COCO: LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT DISTRIBUTED MULTI-PLATFORM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND CONFIGURATION CONTROL

摘要

This paper describes how the ISO-SWS development team developed the Interactive Analysis (IA) software in a distributed environment. When it became clear that IA would be developed by at least three institutes that were geographically distributed, a platform-independent configuration control system (CoCo) was designed that could control the software development in terms of version control and access control, and distribute the software in a consistent and automatic way. The CoCo system incorporates also tracking of problem reports. Over the years the development team has gained experience in distributed software development and maintenance. The lessons learned from this experience are discussed.