Software Configuration Management - Thursday lecture:

SCM++

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 as background material.
• Axel Mahler: Variants: Keeping Things Together and Telling Them Apart.
  Read this paper and reflect on the multitude of problems that variants can create.
• Crnkovic et al: Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and SCM, ch. 2 & 4.
  Read these chapters and reflect on the potential consequences of the similarities and differences between PDM and SCM.
• Ulf Asklund, Lars Bendix, Torbjörn Ekman: Configuration Management for extreme Programming.
  Read this paper and reflect on how the development process may influence the way SCM is carried out. Is XP indeed a sane development method seen from an SCM perspective?
• Rebecca Grinter: Recomposition: Putting It All Back Together Again.
  Read this paper and reflect on how SCM can/should handle the more "soft" aspect of co-ordinating people and their work.
• Ulf Asklund, Lars Bendix, Henrik B. Christensen, Boris Magnusson: The Unified Extensional Versioning Model.
  Read this paper as background material on different SCM models.

Lecture summary:

• SCM and Open Source Software
• SCM and Software Product Families
• SCM and Product Data Management
• SCM and eXtreme Programming
• SCM and CSCW

Quote of the day

I used to keep an open mind, but people kept throwing rubbish in it. (Anonymous)