Configuration Management - lecture 2c:

The library metaphor

Literature

• Marion Kelly: Configuration Management - The Changing Image, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1996. (Chapters 5 and 7)
  A CI is a Configuration Item (the formal definition is given in chapter 7).
  Browse chapter 5 to get the context in which we treat the library. Pay attention to page 35 and try to figure out what it is I like about it.
  Study chapter 7 very carefully. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the difference between what is and what is not a CI
  • the two-tier model - or is it three-tier?
• Wayne Babich: Software Configuration Management - Coordination for Team Productivity, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986.
  Chapter 3: Derivations.
  Study this chapter. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the importance of recording derivations
  • why we must have reproducibility
• Lars Bendix, Otto Vinter: Configuration Management from a Developer's Perspective, in proceedings of EuroSTAR, Stockholm, Sweden, November 19-23, 2001.
  You might want to go back to this paper and (re)study:
  • the library metaphor and theory

Lecture slides in pdf.

Lecture summary

• feedback on selected exercises OH
• SCM Hall of Fame
• SCM definition of the week
• introduction to exam and paper review
• the library, metaphor, principles and activities
• examples
• library structures
• identification, preservation and history

Quote of the day

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. (Swift)
Der findes intet bestandigt, undtagen forandring. (Gräsk ordsprog)