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Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM® Rational® ClearCase®: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition
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Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM® Rational® ClearCase®: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition

by David E. Bellagio, Tom J. Milligan
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 25m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM® Rational® ClearCase®: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition

Chapter 1. What Is Software Configuration Management?

The title of this chapter asks such a simple question, the answer to which, one would think, ought to be known by anyone with any kind of record in software development. In reality, it seems that few are able to actually articulate what is meant by that term software configuration management.

To be fair, those who have a record in software development recognize that there is a need to control what is happening in the development process, and, once controlled, there is a sense that the process can be measured and directed. From that recognized need, then, comes a good working definition of software configuration management:

Software Configuration Management is how you control the evolution of ...

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