There is a series of workshops on configuration management along with a number of conferences with presentations on CM such as the International Conferences on Software Engineering, the IFIP world congress, the International IFIP Working Group 10.2/10.5 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation Frameworks, the Symposia on Software Development Environments, Conference on Software Maintenance, and the Usenix workshop on Software Management .

Books and Journals

There are a few books devoted to CM. Bersoff et al focuses on the management perspective of CM and discusses four basic elements of CM: identification, control, audit, and status accounting. Babich emphasizes CM support for developers and discusses some tool support using Unix and ALS as examples. Whitgift discusses, in detail, many aspects of CM such as change control, version management, identification, building, library management, and CM plans. He includes chapters discussing Make, DSEE, Rational, LIFESPAN, and CCC. Arthur focuses, in detail, on CM for software maintenance with corrective, adaptive, and perfective changes. Books on general topics of software engineering techniques such as Pressman have chapters devoted to maintenance and CM. A book on CM for hardware, software and firmware will be published late this year.

In addition to a number of professional seminars, there are also tutorials on CM emphasizing either management support or developer support. Dart and Feiler gave an tutorial at ICSE 13 and Feiler at 18 ICSE 12, of which tutorial notes exist. The July 1986 issue of Software Engineering Notes contains an extensive bibliography on version control and configuration management, focusing on the problem of system modelling. There are many CASE tools oriented journals, such as CASE Outlook and Cutter INformation Corp., that are starting to publish articles about CM tools. Start to look for articles in CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM journals as well as proceedings of the Design Automation conferences. The article by Dart compares CM in the computer-aided design (CAD) field and in the software environments field. Katz describes the CM capabilities in CAD frameworks.

Standards

There exist a number of public domain standards on configuration management. The TARGET=_selfNorth American IEEE/ANSI standard 828-1990 provides an outline for software configuration management plans. This document is complemented by IEEE Guide to Software Configuration Management 1042, which provides guidance to CM planning practices serving three groups: software developers, software managers, and persons responsible for preparing CM plans. It includes a number of CM plans for different types of projects based on IEEE/ANSI 828-1990. The International standard ISO 9001 is for design/development, production, installation, and servicing. The UK standard BS 5750 is identical to ISO 9001, as is the proposed European standard EN 29000.

Software Engineering Institute

The Environments Project at the SEI focuses on CM. Publications pertinent to CM in conferences and workshops are: the IFIP 1992 World Congress ; the International IFIP working group 10.2/10.5 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation Frameworks ; the International Software Configuration Management Workshop series [25], [26]; the International Software Process Workshop series [28]; the USENIX Workshop ; the CASE Workshop series ; the International Conference on Software Engineering[32],an article about the Environments project in SEI Bridge, and SEI Technical Reports.[34] [35][36][37][38] [39][40][41]

ICSE 14 CM Tutorial

References to the 15 CM systems discussed in the tutorial are below.

• Adele
• Aide-De-Camp (ADC)
• Change and Configuration Control (CCC)
• Configuration Management Assistant (CMA)
• Domain Software Engineering Environment (DSEE)
• ISTAR
• Jasmine
• LIFESPAN
• Network Software Environment (NSE)
• PowerFrame
• Rational
• Revision Control System (RCS)
• shape
• Sherpa Design Management System (Sherpa DMS)
• Software Management System (SMS)

References

1. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Version and Configuration Control, German Chapter ACM, GI, Siemens AG, Teubner Verlag, Grassau, W.Germany, Jan 1988.
2. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE CS, GI, ACM Press, Princeton, NJ, Nov 1989, Software Engineering Notes, Vol 17, No 7.
3. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE CS, GI, ACM Press, Trondheim, Norway, June 1991.
4. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE CS, ACM SIGSoft, SEI, IEEE Computer Society Press, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1989.
5. Dart, S. A., "The Past, Present and Future of Configuration Management", To be published in the Proceedings of the IFIP World Congress, Madrid Spain, September 1992, pp. 12.
6. Dart, S. A., "Parallels in Computer-Aided Design Framework and Software Development Environment Efforts", To be published in the Proceedings of the Third International IFIP WG 10.2/10.5 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation Frameworks, Paderborn, Germany, March 1992, pp. 12pp.
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8. Proceedings of Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE, IEEE, USA, November 1985.
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10. Bersoff, E., Henderson, V. and Siegel, S., Software Configuration Management, Prentice-Hall, 1980.
11. Babich, W., Software Configuration Management, Addison-Wesley, 1986.
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