Chapter 9. Configuration Management
Changes—those due to the evolution of work products and those due to requirement changes—take place continuously in a software project. All these changes eventually get reflected as changes in the files containing source, data, or documentation. When multiple people create and change the huge number of files in a software project, it can lead to complications unless the changes are properly controlled. Consider these situations, taken from various projects.
Two different change requests came from the customer. The project manager assigned one request to Rao for implementation, and the other to Meera. Both had to modify code for module X. When Meera finished her modification, she saved the file for X, inadvertently ...
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