Software configuration management tools

Abstract

Soflare Configuration management is concerned with the identijkation, organizing, and controlling the configuration of and changes to a system under parallel development environment. It should encompass all system components. However, most existing soflare configuration management tools have emphasized too much on version control of source Jiles and have neglected some of the other vital functionality. In this paper, recommendations are made to the desirable features that should be incorporated in future tools to make them truly effective in the sofhvare development process.