Configuration Management - lecture 7a:

Summary & Question hour

Literature

• Dart: Configuration Management - the missing link in web engineering, chapter 3.
  Read this chapter and enjoy Susan Dart's grand tour of Configuration Management.
• Leblang: The CM Challenge - Configuration Management that Works.
  Read this paper and appreciate Leblang's bias for making CM practical.

Lecture summary

• Old and new views on CM
• Unified view of CM
• CM challenges
• CM fundamentals
• Questions
• Trial examination

Quote of the day

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. (John Kenneth Galbraith)