Software Configuration Management System. These roles include software engineers or developers project leaders test engineers process engineers managers and even executives. A software configuration management system provides solutions to various challenges faced by different roles in a development team forming an essential part of almost any software development project.
It simultaneously maintains the current state of the software called the baseline while enabling developers to work on new versions for features or fixes. Software Configuration Management involves identifying configuration items for the software project controlling these configuration items and changes to them and recording and reporting status. According to merge Machines Corp2008-12-28 version branching within a software distance for software Priority to US12344583 configuration management system SCMS can version branches within a include responsive to a user initiating a check-software configuration out operation of a file within the SCMS management system identifying the file and a workspace of the user - Geoffrey M.
Configuration management CM is a system engineering method for establishing and maintaining consistency of a products performance functional and physical attributes with its design requirements and operational information throughout its life.
Software configuration management SCM is a software engineering discipline consisting of standard processes and techniques often used by organizations to manage the changes introduced to its software products. These roles include software engineers or developers project leaders test engineers process engineers managers and even executives. Clemm and searching nodes of the repositories of the SCMS for a successor version of the file. In software engineering software configuration management SCM or SW CM is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management.