Version management for ROPCO—a micro-incremental reuse environment

Version management is a pervasive issue in computer science. It is an important part of database theory, software engineering, distributed systems, etc. This paper focuses on version management for software being developed in a software development environment or a software factory. The main objective of the paper is to present a new approach on version management of reusable units of software by using modules/templates as the reusable units. This approach is adopted in the design of a software development environment called ROPCO. Reuse Of Persistent Code and Object code is an integrated collection of techniques, tools, and structures to facilitate the reusability of persistent code and object code.