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Configuration Management Systems


Title: Configuration Management Systems

Author(s): Susan Dart

Overview

  • Introduction to configuration management (CM) issues
    • Definitions of CM and CM system
    • CM solution Functionality requirements for CM systems
    • Kinds of CM systems
    • Summary of introduction
  • Spectrum of concepts in CM systems
    • Descriptions and examples of concepts
      • Overview of Spectrum
      • Functionality Areas
    • Overview of Concept Descriptions
      • Component functionality
      • Structure and construction functionality
      • Team functionality
      • Process functionality
    • Conclusion
  • Past, present and future of CM systems
    • Where Were We: The Past
      • Understanding of the CM problem: complexity
      • Homegrown CM systems, if any
      • Version control, build, change control
      • CM solution was a manual one CM was a private problem
      • Researchers: third-party solutions
      • Version control, compiling code, bug tracking
    • Where Are We: The Present
      • Lots of CM technology
      • Difficult to find a CM solution
    • Where Are We Going: The Future
      • Technology
      • Process
      • Standards
      • Politics
      • Management
    • CM Services Model
  • Conclusion
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Last Modified: 11 January 2007