9.4. SUMMARY
A software product typically consists of many programs and documents, and these items change and evolve before they are ready for the final system. For this reason, software configuration management is an important issue.
Following are some of the lessons from the CM process followed at Infosys:
Define the CM process so that it lets projects handle concurrent updates, undo a change, obtain the latest version of a program, determine the status of a program, and prevent unauthorized changes. Use version control, change request tracking, and library management mechanisms to support these capabilities.
Develop a CM plan separately from the project management plan. The CM plan must specify the environment, configuration items and their ...
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