SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT COURSE 2006
Dr. René L. Krikhaar
Drs. Niels Veerman
Lecture: Tuesday 11.00-12.45h room S2.03
Practical work (week 20-21): Tuesday 9.00-13.00h room S3.29
AIM
The goal of the course is to learn the basic concepts and principles of Software Configuration Management and to learn how to select and apply them in a real-world context.
CONTENT
Software Configuration Management (SCM) is required to control evolving software systems. This course introduces the basic concepts and principles underlying software configuration management, a.o. change control, version management, build management and release management. Tools are inevitable for SCM, therefore a number of SCM tools are compared to the discussed concepts and one or two of them are practiced. New research areas of SCM are discussed: multi-disciplined configuration management, multi-sites CM and CM for multiple products (product families). In addition, the lectures will also cover SCM experiences in industry.
ASSESSMENT
Notify us in advance if you cannot attend a lecture.
PARTICIPANTS GROUPS
Participants groups
COURSE OUTLINE AND MATERIAL
You are expected to study the material before each lesson to stimulate interaction and discussion. A reader has been prepared and is available in the main building's bookshop. You can find the contents of the reader here: reader contents.
From lesson 3, each week two or three presentations are held by groups of students.
The presentation is prepared by the group and then presented by one or more students in 15 minutes (this used to be 20-25 minutes, but has been reduced due to the busy schedule). Afterwards, the rest of the group sets up and leads a discussion on the topic with all SCM students, and takes notes. The notes will be put on the SCM website.
See Participants groups for the schedule.
Week 14, lesson 1: Introduction SCM
Software Configuration Management (Coordination for Team Productivity)
Wayne A.Babich
page 2-31
1 Elements of Software Configuration Management
Edward H. Bersoff
9 pages
2 Concepts in Configuration Management Systems
Susan Dart
18 pages
Week 15, lesson 2: Version and Build management
Implementing and Integrating PDM and SCM
Ivica Crnkovic, Ulf Asklund, Annita Persson Dahlqvist
page 59-87
3 Pragmatic Software Configuration Management
Steve Berczuk
3 pages
4 Make A program for Maintaining Computer Programs
S.I. Feldman
9 pages
Week 16, lesson 3: Merging and Awareness
PR1:
5 A State of the Art Survey on Software Merging
Tom Mens
14 pages
PR2:
6 Process Model and Awareness in SCM
Jacky Estublier and Sergio Garcia
16 pages
Week 17, lesson 4: Branching strategies
Software Configuration Management patterns
Reference Card (www.scmpatterns.com)
Steven Berczuk & Brad Appleton
http://www.berczuk.com/pubs/
Branching Pattens for Parallel Software Development Local copy
Perforce
Advanced SCM Branching Strategies
ClearCase
The Not-So-Official ClearCase Page
UCM
UCM:Configuration Management Branching Strategy
PR3:
7 Version Models for Software Configuration Management
Reidar Conradi and Bernard Westfechtel
22 pages, section 1-4, page 232-253, study rest as context
PR9:
10 Towards a suite of software configuration management metrics
Lars Bendix and Lorenzi Borraci
8 pages
Week 18, lesson 5: Release management
PR4:
13 Software Configuration Management: A roadmap
Jacky Estublier
9 pages
PR5:
9 A case study of the Release Management of a Health Care Information Systems
Gerco Ballintijn
10 pages
PR6:
8 Representing variability in a family of MRI scanners
M. Jaring, R. Krikhaar, J. Bosch
32 pages
Week 19, lesson 6: Industrial change management
Invited speaker: Frank Schophuizen - TOPIC
Title: Industrial unified change management
Software Release Methodology
Michael E. Bays
page 51-85
Change Management Needs Integrated Process and Configuration Management
Gregor Joeris
17 pages
(this paper is not included in the reader but can be found here and will be handed out during lesson 3)
PR7:
11 ArchEvol: Versioning Architectural-Implementation Relationships
Eugen C. Nistor, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott A. Hendrickson and Andre van der Hoek
13 pages
PR8:
12 On Product Versioning for Hypertexts
Tien N. Nguyen, Cheng Thao, Ethan V. Munson
20 pages
Week 20, lesson 7: Practical work
SCM Practical work guide
Feature Requests and Practice Schedule
CVS manual by Per Cederqvist local copy
Week 21, lesson 8: Telelogic/Synergy 23 May
SYNERGY practice/workshop organised by Telelogic
Week 22, no lecture
Week 23, lesson 9: Presentation of approaches for Industrial Assignment
Final Assignment version 1.0
Configuration Management Principles and Practice
Anne Mette Jonassen Hass
page 343-349
Week 24, lesson 10: Second round of presentation of approaches
Use the Feedback from Week 23 to improve your approach.
Week 25, lesson 11: Interviews at the companies
Week 26, Deadline Industrial Assignment
Deadline: Friday 30th June 2006 at 12:00h
Submission: sent your report by email in Word or PDF