Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the controlled way to manage the development and modification of software. For an efficient SCM process different SCM tools can be used to collect information about items being changed in the development or maintenance process. Advanced SCM tools include also Change Management which collects information related to the change process in a project. There...

This paper presents a semantic hypertext-based framework called DHT that supports distributed software connguration management , provides transparent access to heterogeneous, autonomous software repositories, and enables an implementation strategy with low cost and eeort. We show how DHT solves the practical problems of sharing and updating heterogenous multi-version software in a virtual enter...

Modern data centers need to manage complex, multi-level hardware and software infrastructures in order to provide a wide array of services flexibly and reliably. The emerging trends of virtualization and outsourcing further increase the scale and complexity of this management. In this chapter, we focus on the configuration management issues and expose a variety of attack and misconfiguration sc...

Vesta is a system for software configuration management. It stores collections of source files, keeps track of which versions of which files go together, and automates the process of building a complete software artifact from its component pieces. Unlike other software configuration management systems, Vesta was specifically designed to handle very large projects—tens of millions of lines of co...

Recently, several document management systems supporting asynchronous cooperation over the world–wide web have been proposed. Such systems provide access controlled areas for sharing objects related to a specific topic among a group of people working together. Configuration Management Support is however not present or very much restricted in these systems. We argue that such support is necessar...

This paper describes a tool that manages a hierarchical, “is a subsystem of”-structure on a set of software development artefacts and that provides configuration management (CM) for subsystems by interacting with an existing CM tool. The tool is based on a recently proposed framework for subsystem-based configuration management. The tool demonstrates the feasibility of the framework and develop...

Any organisation that produces high quality software merits a closer analysis of their methods such that good techniques can be transferred to other organisations. Open Source Software projects is such a case. We make explicit their underlying process for handling change management and analyse to what extent their success can be attributed to good process, tools or people. Furthermore, we discu...

Complex, end-to-end network services are set up via the configuration method: each component has a finite number of configuration parameters each of which is set to a definite value. End-to-end network service requirements can be on connectivity, security, performance and faulttolerance. However, there is a large conceptual gap between end-to-end requirements and detailed component configuratio...

As the development and use of component-based software becomes increasingly pervasive, the need arises for tools that support the controlled evolution of independently developed components—both at development and at deployment time. Traditionally, such tools have been separate: configuration management tools are used during the development of a software product and deployment tools are used to ...

These days, a lot of organizations are highly dependent on their IT infrastructure. Many organizational service provisioning processes are depending on reliable and high-quality IT services. Therefore the area of IT Service Management (ITSM) has become a very important disciple. One of the most established ITSM approaches is the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3, a set of best practice...