Study of Different Aspects of Software Configuration Management

Abstract

Software configuration management (SCM) is an important activity in the software engineering life cycle. Today, most of the software project teams understand the need for SCM to manage change to their software systems. Most of the companies use the software configuration management and it is essential during the process of software development as rules to control and manage the evolution of software systems. In the Software Engineering, the Software Configuration System (SCM) is used for the tracking & controlling the changes in the software. Since evolution and change is unavoidable in software systems configuration management is considered as an integral element of software development and activity maintenance. The SCM activities are change management system, version management, and then system construction and release management. This paper is the study of software configuration management, the change control, CM process, steps and tools of SCM. The purpose of this paper is to give an idea about software configuration management and how this influences the software development process.