Software Configuration

A Software Configuration is a set of Configuration Items.

This is an abstract concept. One can map an arbitrary complex reality having a software representation to a Software Configuration, for the purpose of managing it.

There is however a fundamental restriction in the relationship between software configurations and configuration items, and it is the Exclusion Principle. Configuration items are identified as families of possible representations, in such a way that at most one such representation may appear in any given software configuration.

-- MarcGirod - 21 Jan 2003