Developmental software configuration and integration in a large Ada project

The imposition of software configuration management practices prior to the last possible moment has traditionally been the norm for software projects. In the AFATDS Project at Magnavox software configuration management and centrally controlled integration activities were present from the beginning of the software development process and have shown themselves to be very useful to the project. While the AFATDS developmental configuration and integration work was the result of a constantly evolving process, it is now possible to look at what was done, and extract suggestions and recommendations on how to implement these activities in future projects.