Software Configuration Management - lecture I

The team and SCM

Time and place:

• Wednesday, September 25, 8:30-10:30, aula G

Literature:

• Lars Bendix: A short introduction to Software Configuration Management, Chapter 1 and 2.

  Read Chapter 1 and study Chapter 2 with special emphasis on the co-ordination problems and their solutions.
  Read them after the lecture, but before the exercises.

Lecture summary:

• Introduction and motivation
• Definition and history
• Problems of team co-ordination
• Team co-ordination strategies
• Fundamental versioning concepts
• Basic configuration management concepts

Lecture slides:

In pdf

Quote of the day:

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