Need guidance in Software Configuration Management (SCM(

[Mark Runyan]

>/ dnb at fltk.UUCP (David Buonomo) /  9:24 am  Mar 16, 1990 /
>Does anybody know of any literature that pertains to Software Configuration
>Management in a UNIX environment.  Experience and horror stories are welcome.


General books:

_Software_Configuration_Management_:_Coordination_for_Team_Productivity_,
  by Wayne A. Babich, Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-10161-0.

_The_Program_Development_Process_, by J.D. Aron, Addison-Wesley, 1983,
  ISBN 0-201-14451-4.

_Software_Configuration_Management_:_An_Investment_in_Product_Integrity_,
  by E. Bersoff, V. Henderson, and S. Siegel, Prentice-Hall, 1980,
  ISBN 0-13-821769-6.

Papers:

"RCS - A System for Version Control", Walter Tichy, _Software-Practice_and_
  Experience_, Vol 15(7), p637-654, (July 1985).

"Build-A Software Construction Tool", V. Erickson and J. Pellegrin,
  _AT&T_Bell_Lab_Technical_Journal_, Vol 63(6), p1049-1059, (July-August 
  1984).

"Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Revision Control System",
  Walter Tichy, _IEEE_, Vol ?(?), p 58-67, (??? 1982).


"Project Hygiene", Vic Stenning, _USENIX_Workshop_Proceedings_on_Software_
  _Management_, p1-9, (April 3-4, 1989).

"Software Manaagement Using a CASE Environment", M. Honda and T. Miller,
  _USENIX_Workshop_Proceedings_on_Software_Management_, p11-16,
  (April 3-4, 1989).

"Boxes, Links, and Parallel Trees: Elements of a Configuration Management
  System", Andy Glew, _USENIX_Workshop_Proceedings_on_Software_Management_, 
  p17-28(April 3-4, 1989).
 
"Controlling Software for Multiple Projects", Dale Miller, _USENIX_Workshop_
  _Proceedings_on_Software_Management_, p39-50, (April 3-4, 1989).

"CCSLAND", Nathaniel Bronson III, _USENIX_Workshop_Proceedings_on_Software_
  _Management_, p87-94, (April 3-4, 1989).

"The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD", M. McKusick, M. Karels, and K. Bostic,
  _USENIX_Workshop_Proceedings_on_Software_Management_, p95-100,
  (April 3-4, 1989).

"Rtools: Tools for Software Management in a Distributed Computing
  Environment", H harrison, s. Schaefer, T. Yoo, _USENIX_Conference_
  _Proceedings_, p85-106, (June 20-24, 1988).

"A Schema for Configuration Management", Terrence Miller, 
  _Proceedings_of_the_2nd_Int'l_Workshop_on_Software_Configuration_Management,
  October 24-27 1989, Princeton. Published as ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering
  Notes, Volume 17(8) pp 26-29, November 1989.