Software Configuration Management - Wednesday lecture:

Traditional SCM

Literature

• Daniels, chapters 2, 3, 4 & 5.
  Read these four chapters. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • 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 yesterday. Notice also his way of defining and using the concept "baseline".
  • the goals of status accounting
  • what reports can be generated from status accounting
  • why and how audits are conducted
• 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
• Compton, chapter 3.
  Read this chapter to get a feel for the different roles and responsibilities connected with CM.
• Leon, chapter 11.
  Read this chapter as background material for the exercises next week, where you have to produce parts of a CM-plan. Section 2.2 in Daniels also gave information about CM-plans.
• Brad Appleton et al.:Streamed Lines - Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development.
  Read the introduction part of this paper to get the context.
  • Read the following patterns so you are ready to discuss them at the lecture:
    • P5, P7, P8, C2, C3, C4, S2, S5 and S6.
  • Browse very quickly through the rest of the patterns.