ABOUT

Nowadays it is very difficult to find integrated development environment without build management tool. However such means is absent in OS QNX4 and software developers have to write batch files to build their products. This solution usually has several disadvantages:

• weak team development support;
• significant cost of a project structure support;
• significant cost of test builds support;
• no unified approach for product integration.

As a sequence, following modern methods for software development process requires more resources. In case there is no process, software quality suffers.

The goal of Make-Effect project is to reduce tedious work of software developers in build management and to simplify implementation of SWEBOK knowledge in Software Configuration Management.

Make-Effect achieves the goal due to experience of build management in successful commercial projects and due to ideas from the article Vladimir Ignatov ''Effective use of GNU Makeâ'' (http://www.linuxrsp.ru/docs/gm.html).

AUTHOR

Andrey Gusev, e-mail: andrey-gusev@users.sourceforge.net

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Gratitude to my tutors in computer science:

Sophia I. Gorlitskaya, corresponding member of Academy of Informatization of Education, PhD

Yuri B. Senichenkov, PhD

Assistance in translating to English:

Raymond Martin, OmegaT+ project