1. Baseline – IEEE definition
A specification or a product that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon, that thereafter serves as the basis for further development, and that can be changed only through formal change control procedures.

2. Software Configuration Item (SCI)
Information that is created as part of the software engineering process
Typical SCIs
Requirement Specs
Design Specs
Source code
Test cases and recorded results
User guides and Installation Manuals
Executable programs
Standards and procedures (C++ design guidelines)

3. Software Configuration Management Tasks
Identification
Version Control
Change Control
Configuration Auditing
Reporting
Identification:
how does an organization identify and manage the many existing versions of a program in a manner that will enable changes to be accommodated efficiently?
Version Control:
how does an organization control changes before and after software is released to a customer?
Change Control:
who has responsibility for approving and ranking changes?
Configuration auditing:
how can we ensure that the changes have been made properly?
Reporting:
what mechanism is used to appraise others of changes that are made?

4. Identification
How does an organization identify and manage the many existing versions of a program in a manner that will enable changes to be accommodated efficiently?

5. Version Control
How does an organization control changes before and after software is released to a customer?

6. Change Control
Who has the responsibility for approving and ranking changes?

7. Configuration Auditing
How can we ensure that the changes have been made properly?

8. Reporting
What mechanism is used to appraise others of changes that are made?

9. Configuration Identification
Identify baseline
Identify configurable software items
At the minimum, all deliverables must be identified as configurable items- design, software, test cases, tutorials, user guides…

10. Version Evolution
1.3.1
1.3.2
Baseline Version
Major change
Major change
1.3
1.5
1.0
1.1
1.2
Minor change
1.4
1.6
Minor change
1.1.1
1.1.2

11. Version Control
How does an organization control changes before and after software is released to a customer?
What are the different components in this particular version?

12. Software Engineering II
Lecture 33
Fakhar Lodhi

13. Recap