A Cost Effective and Preventive Approach to Avoid Integration Faults Caused by Mistakes in Distribution of Software Components

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Pseudocode: prerun monitoring.

) CompOfInve ← HashInventory.xml  {inventory components}

() CompOfSta ← ⌀     {components of local station)

() OKList ← NOKList ← Inexist ← ⌀ {lists of artifacts}

() Appl_OK ← FALSE

() if (CompOfInve.inventory_version = VersionControl.inventory_online_version)  then

()  Appl_OK ← TRUE {the version is the most recent}

() else if

()  Appl_OK ← FALSE {the version is not the most recent}

() end if

() CompOfSta =     Application of Local Statio

() for each node    CompOfInve  do

()  

    {return node from CompOfSta that matches with  , or  

()  ← Match(, CompOfSta)

()  if () then

()   if Hash() = Hash() then

      {add to list of correct hash artifacts}

()    OKList.Add(CompOfSta)

()   else if

     {add to list of incorrect hash artifacts}

()    NOKList.Add(CompOfSta)

()   end if

()  else if

()   Inexist.Add() {add to list of absence artifacts}

()  end if

() end for

() if (Appl_OK = FALSE) ∣ (NOKList ≠⌀) ∣ (Inexist ≠ ⌀) then

   {there are inconsistencies—generates alert and logs}

()  Alert() {notify the user}

()  LogGeneration(Appl_OK, OKList, NOKList, Inexist)

() end if