Configuration Management (Pasquale Argenio)

Extract from [[CmWiki], dated 31 Jan 2007

Software Configuration Management includes the creation, installation, deletion and establishment of relationships of the software systems built from the configuration items that compose it. This "movement" of configuration items is documented by SCM and may be considered a configuration meta-item. The goal of SCM is the recreation of software systems, under its direct control, from their human-readable components. SCM also chronicals use of and changes to external software products, not under its direct control, as black boxes supporting or interacting with the software systems it does control.