Configuration Management - lecture 6a:

CM & OSS + CM & SPF

Literature

• Asklund & Bendix: A Study of Configuration Management for Open Source Software.
  Read the paper and make sure that you fully understand how OSS projects handle workspaces and the change management process.
• Hein & MacGregor: Managing Variability with Configuration Techniques.
  Read this paper and make sure that you understand why we need product families and what problems they cause.

Lecture summary

• CM for OSS
• workspace management
• change management
• Software Product Families/Lines
• reuse
• structure-oriented configuration
• variation points
• traceability

Quote of the day

Always remember: Writing software from requirements is like walking on water. It is much easier if it is frozen !!! (Anonymous)