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Three key trends in application development
are driving up the complexity of build management
systems to the point that a new approach to build
management is required. First, complications have
arisen from the growing need to support a variety
of environments, platforms, and languages. Second,
code reuse and refactoring is rapidly increasing the
rate of change in software applications and technology.
And, perhaps most importantly, end users are simply
demanding higher quality applications.
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Management using CAD systems
Computers have contributed to
design for quite a while by providing analysis
tools (e.g., the Finite Element Method), data-bases
(e.g., of drawings and components), and computer-aided
drafting/drawing tools. The latter is what one
naturally thinks of when CAD is mentioned, as
such tools have been under development since
the early 1960s. Their progress runs parallel
to that of Computer Graphics.
Two dimensional drafting tools,
and 3D display of objects as "wire-frames",
were followed by Raster Displays. The capability
to display a shaded image, along with developments
in Geometric Modelling [Mantyla 1988], allowed
designers to consider objects on the screen
as "real". |
They were able to concentrate on
decisions about objects rather than about drawings.
This is much closer to Computer Aided Design, as opposed
to Computer Aided Drafting. Since its inception, CAD
has gradually been concerned with representing increasing
amounts about the objects being manipulated. Geometric
information has moved from 2D to 3D, and from planar
to curved surfaces. Information about surface finish
and color has been added. Geometric and Topological
models specify the structural
relationships between components.
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