Thursday, July 21, 2005

What is Software Configuration Management?

The following article is a great introduction to SCM.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=390813&rl=1

Article Brief

Software is easy to change—too easy. And not only is it easy to change, but it is unconstrained by the physical laws that serve as the guardrails of what is possible with hardware systems. Software is bounded only by the limits of the human imagination. Uncontrolled and undirected, imagination can quickly give rise to nightmare. Software configuration management helps to limit this.

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