Within this report I will discuss why software configuration management is important. I will introduce four principals of configuration management; configuration management planning, change management, version & release management and system building. I will also cover standards within configuration management and version identification. Lehman’s first ‘law’ draws attention to a basic property of software systems, [...]

Within this report I will discuss why software configuration management is important. I will introduce four principals of configuration management; configuration management planning, change management, version & release management and system building. I will also cover standards within configuration management and version identification.          Lehman’s first ‘law’ draws attention to a basic property of software [...]