This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, SCM-7, held in conjunction with the 1997 IEEE/CS International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'97, in Boston, MA, USA, in May 1997. The book presents 16 revised full papers selected from a total of 49 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on versioning models, reuse and system models, process aspects, distributed SCM, SCM on the Web, and industrial experience, This book competently reports the state of the art in software configuration management.

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Software configuration management (SCM) is one of the scientific tools that is aimed to bring control to the software development process. This new resource is a complete guide to implementing, operating, and maintaining a successful SCM system for software development. Project managers, system designers, and software developers are presented with not only the basics of SCM, but also the different phases in the software development lifecycle and how SCM plays a role in each phase. The factors that should be considered and the pitfalls that should be avoided while designing the SCM system and SCM plan are also discussed. In addition, this third edition is updated to include cloud computing and on-demand systems. This book does not rely on one specific tool or standard for explaining the SCM concepts and techniques; In fact, it gives readers enough information about SCM, the mechanics of SCM, and SCM implementation, so that they can successfully implement a SCM system.

This book presents revised full versions of the best papers accepted for the SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops on Software Configuration Management, held in connection with the 1994 and 1995 IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). The 22 papers included give a unique overview on and introduction to current software configuration management issues. SCM is the discipline of managing software evolution. It is concerned with controlling evolving software products and supporting teams and activities involved in the development of complex software systems. SCM attracts the attention of SE design and development professionals, of researchers, and of software managers.

This book constitutes the joint post-proceedings and proceedings of the 10th and 11th International Symposium on Software Configuration Management, SCM 2001 and SCM 2003, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2001 and in Portland, OR, USA in May 2003. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on version models, architecture, concurrency and distribution, component-based systems, education, and new applications.

The development of products in disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, or software engineering is a challenging task. Costs have to be reduced, the ti- to-market has to be shortened, and quality has to be improved. Skilled engineers andsophisticatedtoolsforsupportingtechnicalworkarenecessaryprerequisites, yettheyarenotsu?cientformeetingtheseambitiousgoals.Inaddition,thework of developers must be coordinated so that they cooperate smoothly. To this end, the steps of the development process have to be planned, an engineer executing a task must be provided with documents and tools, the results of development activities have to be fed back to management which in turn has to adjust the plan accordingly, the documents produced in di?erent working areas have to kept consistent with each other, etc. This book reports on models and tools for managing development processes. It provides both a survey of the current state of the art and presents our own contributions. The material covered in this book is based on research in di?- ent engineering disciplines (mechanical, software, and chemical engineering). It presents a uni?ed view on the management of development processes in these disciplines.