Bnefits of Software Configuration Management (SCM)

SCM (Software Configuration Management) is a standardized and efficient software development infrastructure. SCM can systematically manage multiple versions in a software system; comprehensively record the historical process of system development; manage and track defects and changes that endanger software quality and affect the development cycle during the development process. SCM can effectively manage and control the development process, completely and clearly record the historical changes in the development process, and form standardized documents, thereby protecting the valuable code resources of the enterprise, helping the enterprise accumulate software wealth, increasing the software reuse rate, and accelerating investment Return.

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Software Configuration Management (SoftwareConfigurationManagement, SCM) is a technology for identifying, organizing and controlling modifications. Software configuration management is applied to the entire software engineering process. Changes are inevitable when the software is built, and changes aggravate the confusion among software developers in the project. The goal of SCM activities is to identify changes, control changes, ensure correct implementation of changes, and report changes to other relevant personnel. From a certain perspective, SCM is a technique for identifying, organizing, and controlling modifications. The purpose is to minimize errors and maximize production efficiency.

Software configuration management runs through the entire software life cycle. It provides a set of management methods and activity principles for software development. Software configuration management is of great significance to both software enterprise managers and R&D personnel. Software configuration management can be refined into three aspects: VersionControl-version control ChangeControl-change control ProcessSupport-process support goal 1: The various tasks of software configuration management are planned. Goal 2: The selected project products are identified, controlled and can be obtained by relevant personnel. Objective 3: Changes to the identified project products are controlled. Goal 4: Make relevant groups and individuals keep abreast of the status and content of the software benchmark. Key activities include: configuration items, workspace management, version control, change control, status reports, configuration audits, etc.

Implementation of configuration management in the organization is beneficial to development engineers, test engineers, project managers, quality engineers, and customers. These benefits include:
1 Maintain the integrity of the software through configuration management activities. (Integrity includes the correctness, completeness, and traceability of the software.)
2 Manage software assets (source code, documents, data).
3 Track changes during development.
4 Ensure that the software is released correctly;
5 Ensure that engineers implement changes (defects or new features) on the correct baseline or software version.
6 Provide a process capability to trace from demand to final product.
7 Reduce legal liability by recording all process data, regardless of whether you flatter the company or not, by recording memos, decisions, and meeting minutes.
   Records, notifications, changes to requirements, codes, tests, etc. Configuration management provides traces of the project process on paper.
8 Help the cost of maintaining the software during the software life cycle.
9 Provides the ability to trace source code. (For example, demand problems, coding problems).
10 Provides a stable development environment so that the development process can be established, copied, and improved.
11 Provide unified and mutually agreed customer needs;
12 Enhance the developer's compliance with the development process.
13 Enhanced the report of the current development status;
14 Provides an environment in which meaningful process data is collected;
15 Provide some data that can be easily generated for use in project reports;
16 Used for fast and easy project audit;
17 By retaining relevant information about the product being developed, such as hardware, operating system, code baseline, etc., the development environment can be reproduced.
18 Provide communication channels between different development groups (such as systems, subsystems, tests, interfaces)