Software Configuration Management - lecture 4a:

The library metaphor

Literature

• Kelly, chapters 5 & 7.
  A CI is a Configuration Item (the formal definition is given in chapter 7).
  Read chapter 5 to get the context in which we treat the library. Pay attention to page 35 and try to figure out what it is I like about it.
  Study chapter 7 very carefully. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the difference between what is and what is not a CI
  • the two-tier model - or is it three-tier?
• Bendix & Vinter.
  You might want to go back to this paper and (re)read:
  • the library metaphor and theory

Lecture summary

• CM levels
• workshop background and purpose
• the library, metaphor, principles and activities
• examples
• library structures
• identification, preservation and history

Quote of the day

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. (Swift)