Software Configuration Management

Whats Software Configuration Management ?

Software configuration management (SCM) is a software-engineering concept comprising the tools and techniques or in other words processes or methodology that a company uses to manage change to its software assets.

Can you give an idea on the tools and techniques used for doing this Software configuration management (SCM).

Software configuration Management

---Software systems are constantly undergoing changes in the development and maintenance development.
---Different versions,variations,builds and release code and test cases should be kept track off and many artifacts exist.
---Organizations need staff or tools to keep track of these changes.

The key Organizations associated with the configuration management are
Identification of the configuration items
Change Control
Configuration Status reporting
Configuration Audits

one common tool used for configuration management is Ration Clear case