Configuration Management - lecture 6a:

CM & OSS + CM & XP

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.
• Bendix and Ekman: Software Configuration Management in Agile Development.
  Read this paper and make sure that you understand how SCM should be carried out in an Agile context.

Lecture summary

• CM for OSS
• workspace management
• change management
• SCM for XP
• SCM-related XP practices
• SCM specific sub-practices

Quote of the day

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