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What is Software Configuration Management (SCM)?

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The process of managing the development, change, distribution and installation of software applications throughout the entire software life cycle.

Why is SCM important?

An effective SCM process protects your organization from the risks associated with planned software changes. The majority of system outages are a result of poorly planned software changes.

A comprehensive SCM solution provides the three R's of SCM:

Reliability
Reproducibility
Referential Integrity

Reliability

avoiding regression
ensuring the correct versions of software are used
ensuring changes are properly authorized
ensuring all components of a release are distributed

Reproducibility

ensuring that lost applications can be reproduced

Referential Integrity

managing the relationship between all software components
maintaining a detailed audit trail through the entire software life cycle

What does an effective SCM solution address?

Source Version Management
Executable Object Version Management
Release Management
Change Approvals
Audit trails

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