Dependency Tracking Task
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A Dependency Tracking Task is a tracking task for software dependencies.
References
2020
- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2075515/automate-dependency-tracking--part-1.html
- QUOTE: ... In any interactive application, dependency tracking is one of the most significant problems you must solve. Usually, you apply some manual mechanism to update user interface (UI) components when the information model changes. For example, you might use the Observer pattern to notify registered objects of changes to a given subject. Or you might use the Publish/Subscribe pattern to broadcast changes to all listeners. Or you can route update messages with appropriate hints to all views. All these mechanisms work, but they all require effort by a person -- and that person will be you, the overworked programmer.
An automatic dependency tracking mechanism can handle most of that work for you. Using the automatic mechanism resembles programming with a spreadsheet; you simply enter formulas, and the computer figures out when to calculate them. The major difference is that the automatic mechanism is object-oriented and speaks Java. …
- QUOTE: ... In any interactive application, dependency tracking is one of the most significant problems you must solve. Usually, you apply some manual mechanism to update user interface (UI) components when the information model changes. For example, you might use the Observer pattern to notify registered objects of changes to a given subject. Or you might use the Publish/Subscribe pattern to broadcast changes to all listeners. Or you can route update messages with appropriate hints to all views. All these mechanisms work, but they all require effort by a person -- and that person will be you, the overworked programmer.