Configuration Management - lecture 5a:

Identification & Control

Literature

• Daniels, chapters 2 & 3.
  Read these two chapters.
  • In chapter 2, pay special attention to the change process and be sure that you completely understand the role and working of the CCB.
  • 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 4a. Notice also his way of defining and using the concept "baseline".
• Bohner and Arnold: An Introduction to Software Change Impact Analysis
  Read this paper and make sure that you:
  • understand the concepts and principles of impact analysis
  • the place of impact analysis in the change process (and relation to CCB)
  • methods and techniques for handling impact analysis

Lecture summary

• The change process
• Configuration Items
• Baselines
• Impact analysis
• Dependency analysis
• Traceability analysis
• Impact determination

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