Software Configuration Management (SCM)

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Software configuration management (SC) is a software engineering discipline consisting of standard processes and techniques often used by organizations to manage the changes introduced to its software products. SC helps in identifying individual elements and configurations tracing changes and version selection control and baselining.  
SC is also known as software control management. SC aims to control changes introduced to large complex software systems through reliable version selection and version control.  

 Software Configuration Management does​ ​  
● Introduction to Software Configuration management and Configuration management for software Testers. 
● Software configuration management (SC) is the discipline for systematically controlling the changes that tae place during Software evelopment. 
● Software development software consists of a collection of items (such as program documents etc..) that can easily be changed. uring software development the design code and even requirements are often changed and the changes occur at any time during the development. This easily changeable the nature of software and the fact that changes often take place require that changes be done in a controlled manner.  

 Configuration Items in Software Testing​ ​:  
What Software and Hardware that Software Testers use during Software Testing and what documents they produce during Testing are called Configurable items.  
Example:​ 
Test plan Test Scenarios Test cases Test data etc..  

 The SCM system has the following advantages:  
● Reduced redundant wor. 
● Effective management of simultaneous updates. 
● Avoids configuration-related problems. 
● Facilitates team coordination. 
● Helps in building management managing tools used in builds. 
● effect tracing: It ensures that every defect has traceability back to its source.

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