Mapping of software configuration management issues with the area of responsibility

摘要

Majority of the current literature in GSD today only present the issues and solutions related to the social difficulties; cultural, language, time zone and others. There is only little investigation related to technical difficulties; particularly on Software Configuration Management (SCM). SCM is a practice which has been used widely; neither in collocated environment nor in GSD itself. SCM practices can be done without major problems in collocated environment. However, a lot of challenges faced by the team members in GSD environment; for the reason that the coordination and synchronization become more complex. This paper presents our findings of a systematic mapping study of the literature related to the issues concerning SCM and SCM areas of responsibility which have major problems.