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Version Control Integration Of Build Maintenance Tools With Formiga, Reed Alexander Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

The task of build maintenance consists of creating, configuring, and updating the build system of a software engineering project. A project of sufficient size and scope is likely to have some sort of build system due to the complexity and time required to create a finished product. Build maintenance has been shown to greatly increase the cost of developing software due to the common need to modify a build system at the same time as the source code. Unfortunately, there is little in the way of tool support to assist developers with build maintenance.

Formiga is a build maintenance and …