Configuration Management - seminar 3a:

Dimensions of versioning + Identification & Status Accounting

Literature

• Peter van den Hamer, Kees Lepoeter: Managing Design Data: The Five Dimensions of CAD Frameworks, Configuration Management and Product Data Management, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 84, No. 1 January 1996.
  Video (133 Mb), slides and discussion questions (other questions).
  Read this paper.
  Make sure that you fully understand:
  • each dimension in isolation - and how it relates to the course
  • how the combination of dimensions is even more useful
• M. A. Daniels: Principles of Configuration Management, Advanced Applications Consultants, Inc., 1985. (chapters 3 and 4).
  Video (370 Mb), slides and discussion questions (other questions).
  Read these two chapters.
  In chapter 3, it is important that you understand how Daniels selects and structures CIs - you may want to compare that with Kelly's definitions from lecture 2c. Notice also his way of defining and using the concept "baseline".
  In chapter 4, make sure that you fully understand:
  • the goals of status accounting
  • what reports/information can be generated from status accounting

Lecture slides in pdf.

Seminar summary

• Feedback on exercises

• SCM Hall of Fame
• SCM definition of the week

• Dimensions of versioning
• Configuration Items
• Baselines
• Status accounting

Quote of the day

CM-manager's version of the beer song:

99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs in the code,
remove one bug - recompile and run
101 little bugs in the code....