Late product delivery is a common problem in software projects. can be attributed to change especially the development and maintenance phases, leading more work than originally planned, thus increasing project completion time. One approach for managing Software Configuration Management (SCM). SCM was first introduced 1970s ensure timely of products. To date, implementation supported by recogniz...

Even though the number and variety of available configuration management systems has grown rapidly in the past few years, the need for new configuration management systems still remains. Driving this need are the emergence of situations requiring highly specialized solutions, the demand for management of artifacts other than traditional source code and the exploration of entirely new research q...

Configuration management tools have become quite adept at representing target configurations at a point in time. While a point-in-time model helps with system configuration tasks, it cannot represent the complete scope of configuration tasks needed to manage a complex environment over time. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism for representing changes over time in target configurations and s...

In the face of changing technology, the world is becoming more global by the minute. This globalization has resulted in dispersed teams and collaborative opportunities, which offer value and depth to projects. Software development also reflects this globalization, as do all the processes involved in software development. It is important to understand these changes and how they affect not only t...

More than one decade of industrial experience with the Adele CM environment shows that advances in software configuration management are effective only if forward-looking research can be merged with pragmatic work on present and past technology. Based on our experience in the CM field and starting from the observation that the technology today in use was designed in the 70’s, this paper tries t...

The history of research on the development of program-families is briefly reviewed. Two distinct problems, configuration-management and family-design are identified. It is explained that, while software configuration-management is not fundamentally different from configurationmanagement for other products, in practice, inadequate attention to family-design exacerbates all problems associated wi...

The Software Environments Project at the Software Engineering Institute has found considerable progress concerning support for software configuration management (CM) in environments and tools. This paper’s intent is to highlight a spectrum of features provided by existing CM systems. The spectrum shows features as being extensions or generalizations of other features and these extensions repres...

ISconf is a configuration management system (CMS) developed through years of experience automating configuration management. As the number of CMS’s available for use increases, attempts have been made to explain why one should use ISconf instead of those other tools; specifically, a stark contrast has been made between tools which depend on convergence, like cfengine, and ISconf, which strives ...