imply dependency). They deal with branching and merging and the flow and structure of changes across codelines.
What's Next?
Now that we've finally set the stage and introduced the players, we'll be exiting the stage until next month, when we finally try and directly apply our translations to each of the different types of version control containers: changes/workspaces, baselines, and codelines. We're very interested in your feedback on these ideas and our initial "mapping" of them into the version-control domain. So if you think we've missed something or you have some insights to share, please let us know.
References
[1] Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices ; by Robert C. Martin; Prentice-Hall, 2002
[2] Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration ; by Stephen Berczuk and Brad Appleton; Addison-Wesley, November 2002.
[3] Object-Oriented Programming: An Objective Sense of Style ; by Karl J. Lieberherr, Ian Holland, Arthur Riel; Proceedings of the 1988 Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OPSLA'88); September 1988, San Diego, CA, pp. 323-334.
[4] The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master ; by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas; Addison-Wesley, 1999.
[5] A Software Configuration Management Model for Supporting Component-Based Software Development ; by Hong Mei, Lu Zhang, Fuqing Yang; ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 26, Issue 2; (March 2001), pp. 53-58; ISSN:0163-5948
[6] A Component-Based Software Configuration Management Model And Its Supporting System ; by Hong Mei, Lu Zhang, Fuqing Yang; Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 17, Issue 4; (July 2002), pp.432 – 441; ISSN:1000-9000
[7] Container-Based SCM and Inter-File Branching; by Laura Wingerd; 1st BCS CMSG Conference , April 2003 (also see accompanying presentation )
[8] Flexible Configuration Management for a Component-based Software Asset Repository ; by Tom Brett; BCS CMSG event: Why Software Asset Management and Configuration Management is essential , March 2004 (also see accompanying presentation )
[9] Configuration Management Principles and Practice ; by Anne Mette Hass; Addison-Wesley, December 2002. Chapter 1, “What is Configuration Management?” (available online)
About the author
Brad Appleton is a software CM/ALM solution architect and lean/agile development champion at a large telecommunications company. Currently he helps projects and teams adopt and apply lean/agile development and CM/ALM practices and tools. He is coauthor of the bookSoftware Configuration Management Patterns, a columnist in The CM Journal and The Agile Journal at CMCrossroads.com, and a former section editor for The C++ Report. You can read Brad's blog at blog.bradapp.net.
About the author
Robert Cowham has long been interested in software configuration management while retaining the attitude of a generalist with experience and skills in many aspects of software development. A regular presenter at conferences, he authored the Agile SCM column within the CM Journal together with Brad Appleton and Steve Berczuk. His day job is as Services Director for Square Mile Systems whose main focus is on skills and techniques for infrastructure configuration management and DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) - applying configuration management principles to hardware documentation and implementation as well as mapping ITIL services to the underlying layers.
