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High-level best practices in software configuration management

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System Configuration Management (SCM 1998)

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Abstract

When deploying new SCM (software configuration management) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or previous tools. The result is a well-executed blunder. This paper promotes some high-level best practices that reflect the authors' experiences in deploying SCM.

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  1. Perforce Software, Inc., USA

    Laura Wingerd & Christopher Seiwald

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  1. Laura Wingerd
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Boris Magnusson

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Wingerd, L., Seiwald, C. (1998). High-level best practices in software configuration management. In: Magnusson, B. (eds) System Configuration Management. SCM 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053878

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