The literature suggests that maturity assessment tools could be successful if based on process capabilities which are the outcomes of critical success factors and barriers to a process. This paper investigate the configuration management process capabilities finalized on the basis of semi-structured interviews with configuration management professionals and analysis of two highly significant st...

The development and use of product configurators has been highlighted as one of the more important IT enabled technologies to facilitate the realisation of mass customisation. However, the integration of these technologies into day to day business operations is complicated by the proliferation of configuration capabilities across a number of types of IT applications. This paper seeks to address...

Configuring a network is a tedious and error-prone task. In particular, configuring routing policies for a network is complex as it involves subtle dependencies in multiple routers across the network. Misconfigurations are common and certain misconfigurations can bring the Internet down. In 2005, a misconfigured router in AS 9121 blackholed traffic for tens of thousands of networks in the Inter...

Configuration management is an important aspect of an efficient development process. As with other aspects of software development, configuration management happens in the presence of social and organizational constraints. The various goals of configuration management (stability, developer independence and interaction, etc.) sometimes conflict with each other. This paper presents three configur...

Network services have gained great importance during the last years. Following the current trend, the number of computers and applications that collaborate to provide these services will grow steadily in the future. The dependencies between the collaborating systems along with heterogeneous management interfaces will continue to increase the complexity of the administration task. This thesis pr...

Component-based programming is now a widely recognized approach in software development. There remain many open problems related to both technical and non-technical aspects of the components. In this paper, we point out the problem of component identification. Since the components are usually binary units deployed in the system at run-time, we do not have the same insight into their characteris...

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W henever I start a new software project, I look at the infrastructure the team has in place for doing things like setting up a development workspace, building, doing version management, and so on—the things that belong to the larger topic known as software configuration management (SCM). I worry about these elements because, in a sense, I’m lazy. I want to direct my energies into producing cod...

A configuration management policy specifies the procedures through which a user evolves artifacts stored in a configuration management system. Different configuration management systems typically use different policies, and new policies continue to be developed. A problem in the development of these new policies is that existing policies (and their implementations) typically cannot be reused. A...