DELEGATING CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIESWITHIN THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

摘要

A software project produces a number of items during its execution, including various documents,rnprograms, data, and test artifacts. Configuration management (CM) is the aspect of project managementrnthat is concerned with identifying distinct variants of these items, and systematicallyrncontrolling how they change. Configuration management is often conceived and conducted as arnprocess distinctly separate from and in service of software development. This separation is reflectedrnin a division of labor where software developers build software components while a configurationrnmanager combines the components in various configurations. We relate our experiences within arnproject named MPTE where CM was coordinated and monitored by a configuration manager, butrnthe responsibility for performing CM activities was shared among the software developers.