Software configuration management is a very important activity, critical for any software project. Learn Software processes (link to article) has a post that gives an overview of software configuration management:
Software configuration management is an umbrella activity that is applied throughout the software process. SCM identifies, controls, audits, and reports modifications that invariably occur while software is being developed and after it has been released to a customer. All information produced as part of software engineering becomes part of a software configuration. The configuration is organized in a manner that enables orderly management of change.
The configuration audit is a SQA activity that helps to ensure that quality is maintained as changes are made. Status reporting provides information about each change to those with a need to know. Configuration management for Web engineering is similar in most respects to SCM for conventional software. However, each of the core SCM tasks should be streamlined to make it as lean as possible, and special provisions for content management must be implemented.
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