Configuration Management in a Software Product Line
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Software product lines offer a comprehensive strategy for successfully building products. This strategy also greatly expands the number and types of artifacts upon which that success depends. Managing these artifacts over the lifetime of the product line requires a carefully structured set of configurations and a rigorously enforced change management process. In this paper we present an approach to configuration management in a software product line organization that has evolved from our work with several product line organizations. The approach, which is added to traditional configuration management practices, managing information, including changes, about assets and products ensuring that they are exactly what they were intended to be. We also briefly describe our technique for interacting with groups to design effective configuration management processes for software product lines.
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