Configuration Management - lecture 2a:

Construction site metaphor

Literature

• Lars Bendix, Otto Vinter: Configuration Management from a Developer's Perspective, in proceedings of EuroSTAR, Stockholm, Sweden, November 19-23, 2001.
  Study this paper. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the construction site metaphor and theory
  • the motivation for running a workshop
  • what a metaphor is and why they are used
• Tim Mikkelsen, Suzanne Pherigo: Practical Software Configuration Management - The Latenight Developer's Handbook, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997. (Chapter 3)
  Browse this chapter - focus on the concepts and principles related to the construction site metaphor.
• Ulf Asklund: Configuration Management for Distributed Development – Practice and Needs, Dissertation 10, Department of Computer Science, Lund University, 1999. (Chapters 2 and 5)
  Read these chapters. Make sure that you understand: the different cases of distributed development

Lecture slides in pdf.

Lecture summary

• feedback on exercises
• SCM Hall of Fame
• SCM definition of the week

• workshop background and purpose
• metaphors
• why worry about CM?

• construction site, metaphor, principles and activities
• examples
• collaboration, co-ordination, communication

• introduction to the CVS lab

Quote of the day

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.] (Ovid).