Software systems are constantly changing during development and use. Bugs are discovered and have to be fixed. System requirements change, and you have to implement these changes in a new version of the system. New versions of hardware and system platforms are released, and you have to adapt your systems to work with them. Competitors introduce new features in their system that you have to match. As changes are made to the software, a new version of a system is created. Most systems, therefore, can be thought of as a set of versions, each of which may have to be maintained and managed.
Configuration management (CM) is concerned with the policies, processes, and tools for managing changing software systems (Aiello and Sachs 2011). You need to ...
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