Uma abordagem para ajustar o controle de versão à natureza das aplicações web

Abstract

This work presents an approach to adjust version control to the nature of Web applications. These applications have a unique and dynamic nature, which involves a wide variety of configuration items (e.g., source code and documents) and Web content (e.g., text, graphics, images, video, audio). Version control is an essential activity to the software systems development, since it establishes the management of multiple versions of source code and documents. However, version control strategies need to be adapted to conform to the nature of Web applications. To achieve this goal, strategies are defined based on the MPS.BR model and characteristics of Web applications. In terms of methodology, the research is done through a qualitative analysis. Basically, the research shows that, in addition to the use of tactics for the selection and identification of configuration items, the use of version control systems and the complementary use of the content management system is a viable strategy to adapt version control to Web applications.