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<dl><dd>Thesis advisors, Valdis Berzins, LuQi</dd>
<dd>Thesis (M.S. in Software Engineering) Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 1997</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references (p. 189)</dd>
<dd>A promising use of Computer Aided Prototyping System (CAPS) is to support concurrent design. Key to success in this context is the ability to automatically and reliably combine and integrate the prototypes produced in concurrent efforts. Thus, to be of practical use in this as well as most prototyping contexts, a CAPS tool must have a fast, automated, reliable prototype integration capability. The current CAPS Change Merge Tool is fast, automated, and uses a highly reliable formalized semantics based change merging method to integrate, or change merge, prototypes which are written in Prototype System Description Language (PSDL). This method can guarantee correct merges, but it loses the prototype's design decomposition structure in the process. The post merge prototype is fully functional, but the design decomposition structure vital to prototype understandability must be manually recovered before post merge prototyping can continue. The delay incurred is unacceptable in a rapid prototyping context. This thesis presents a software design and Ada implementation for a formalized algorithm which extends the current CAPS Change Merge Tool to automatically and reliably recover a merged prototype's design decomposition structure. The algorithm is based in formal theoretical approaches to software change merging and includes a method to automatically report and resolve structural merge conflicts. With this extension to the Change Merge Tool, CAPS prototyping efforts, concurrent or otherwise, can continue post merge with little or no delay</dd>
<dd>System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader</dd>
<dd>dk/dk cc:9116 04/09/98</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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Keesling, William Ronald.</div>
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