25.1 Version management
Version management is the process of keeping track of different versions of software components and the systems in which these components are used. It also involves ensuring that changes made by different developers to these versions do not interfere with each other. In other words, version management is the process of managing codelines and baselines.
Figure 25.4 illustrates the differences between codelines and baselines. A codeline is a sequence of versions of source code, with later versions in the sequence derived from earlier versions. Codelines normally apply to components of systems so that there are different versions of each component. A baseline is a definition of a specific system. The baseline specifies the ...
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