11.5 Tools for Configuration Management
As mentioned earlier, software configuration management is a set of activities related to controlling the parts resulting from software development and support. In large software projects, these activities can be tedious and complex and thus very prone to error. It thus makes sense to automate as many of these activities as possible.
These configuration management tools may be viewed in three tiers. The first basically performs version control and change control, processes that are often available without any change. Some of the earlier and more popular ones applied mostly to controlling source code are the Revision Control System (RCS), which was written by Walter Tichy at Purdue University, and the Source ...
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