Adoption of Configuration Management in the Industry: Strategies and Lessons Learned

Authors

  • Cláudia Werner
  • Chessman Corrêa
  • Rodrigo Santos
  • Marcelo Schots
  • Leonardo Murta
  • Flávio Lyra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19153/cleiej.13.2.8

Abstract

Maintenance represents an important activity in software industry as it is the one that takes the biggest effort among Software Engineering activities apart from its high cost. In this sense, software configuration management helps to overcome some difficulties related to software maintenance such as the lack of product knowledge and negligence in maintenance activities. This paper presents a configuration management deployment process based on standardization of practices and tools, taking into account the software development organizational culture. The results of its application in an industrial case are discussed.

Downloads

Published

2010-08-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2010): Special issue of best papers presented at CIESC'2009, Pelotas, Brazil; plus two regular papers from the Workshop on Modern Software Maintenance

Section

Articles

License

CLEIej is supported by its home institution, CLEI, and by the contribution of the Latin American and international researchers community, and it does not apply any author charges whatsoever for submitting and publishing. Since its creation in 1998, all contents are made publicly accesibly. The current license being applied is a (CC)-BY license (effective October 2015; between 2011 and 2015 a (CC)-BY-NC license was used).