3. Software Configuration Management
A software configuration management (SCM) system consists of tools and processes used to manage the source code of a project and to assess its state. With these tools, management and developers can do the following:
- Peruse the source code managed by the SCM system
- Obtain a local copy of the source code
- Submit modifications made to the source code by developers
- Understand which changes have been made to the source code by developers
- Determine the state of the source code (for example, whether it compiles)
- Log and track defects associated with binaries created from the source code
In a cross-platform project, certain aspects of an SCM system take on added importance. In this chapter, I describe the tools that ...
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