Configuration Management - seminar 4a:

CM & Agile methods + CM & variants

Literature

• Lars Bendix, Torbjörn Ekman: Software Configuration Management in Agile Development, in the book "Agile Software Development Quality Assurance", February 2007.
  Video (325 Mb), slides and discussion questions (other questions).
  Read this paper. Make sure that you understand how SCM should be carried out in an Agile context.
• Axel Mahler: Variants: Keeping Things Together and Telling Them Apart, in the book "Configuration Management", John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
  Video (322 Mb), slides and discussion questions (other questions).
  Read this paper and appreciate that even though the abstract principle is simple, variants in real life are rather complex beasts.

Lecture slides (4a) in pdf.

Seminar summary

• SCM Hall of Fame
• SCM definition of the week
• general feedback on Perforce lab reports

• SCM for XP
• SCM-related XP practices
• SCM specific sub-practices
• SCM & variants
• variant representation
• managing and using variants

Quote of the day

I used to keep an open mind, but people kept throwing rubbish in it. (Anonymous)