[net.general] Software Development Systems under UNIX?

msk@mtplx1.UUCP (09/07/83)

Hello net.world.  (Sorry if you have seen this article before.)

I am looking for UNIX-based tools comprising a Software Development  System.

An SDS is basically a problem tracker.  For example, when a report of a  bug
(to a controlled application) comes in,  an  identifier  would  be  assigned
and all work involved in fixing that problem would  be  tracked  under  that
identifier.  Actions such as interfacing  to  "sccs"  and  "make"  would  be
controlled by the SDS. Having  multiple  programmers  working  on  the  same
(or different) pieces of  the  source  of  the  application  should  not  be
disallowed.  Version control for releasing new versions of the  product  may
also be controlled.

As a former Bell Laboratories employee, I know that there are  such  systems
at the Labs (I worked on one such system),  but  they  have  been  developed
in-house and I don't really believe that the Bell System (sorry, I mean  the
new AT&T) is ready to issue this stuff to the rest of the world.

Please mail any responses directly to me and I will summarize to the net all
the good info I get.

					Morris Kahn
					(... !ihnp4!mtplx1!msk)