Software Configuration Management

A very good description from Software Configuration Management A Roadmap:

• SCM Tool Administration
• Software Build Engineering
• Installation Packaging
• Software Change Management
• Configuration Management

Source Code is the intellectual property of any organization.

Understanding and properly maintaining this valuable asset is SCM's highest priority.

Source Code Administration Information

Software Builds

Software building, otherwise known as integration, is the process of taking all source code files that make up an application and compiling it into build artifacts such as binaries or executables.

SCM ensures that this building process adheres to the following best practices:

• The process is fully automated
• The process is repeatable
• The process is reproducible
• The process is adhered

Software Build Engineering

Software Installation Packaging is the automation of the software deployment process.

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The ability to apply proper controls to the software development process to ensure only appropriate and approved changes are being added to the application.

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Managing the build and runtime environment for an application to ensure the integrity of the application.

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In the 1980s, the first source control systems were built by companies in house. They were exclusively for file control.

As these systems matured and more features and controls were required, the first commercial products were being developed and sold in the 1990s.

By 1998, the SCM tool market was over one billion dollars annually.

By the late 1990s, the first fully functioning SCM tools that included source control, change control, build management and defect tracking were being developed and sold.

Now, the SCM market is over $10 Billion annually. The tools are evolving at a rapid rate. They include many development processes and methodologies such as Agile, CMMI and Iterative methodologies.

Many experts consider SCM to be one of the very few Software Engineering successes.

This site is to be a central repository for the collection of best practices, processes, methodologies and tools that surround SCM.

The purpose of this site may be impossible to accomplish, but the attempt will be made.

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