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Association for Configuration and Data Management ACDM An independent non profit professional society established in 1991 to be the premier professional organization ...

The ACME project started at http://acme.bradapp.net as an attempt to collect and organize best practices for software configuration management (particularly for ...

AllChange Intasoft http://www.intasoft.net/ A single integrated Configuration Management support system. It provides an active support environment for product development ...

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) An organization that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards for nearly all industries. It is ...

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) A seven bit code adopted as a standard to represent specific data characters in computer systems, and ...

Abject Project Etymologically, a project is something thrown forwards . It describes thus an intention , a consistent vision in the future which unifies and gives ...

AccuRev http://www.accurev.com/ Also see the FAQ Pages AccuRev SCM is a client server software configuration management system that runs on Windows and most ...

AccuRev FAQ Originally compilled from customer questions. Also see the AccuRev Documentation 1 Where can I get an overview of AccuRev/CM's special concepts ...

Aldon Affiniti Aldon http://www.aldon.com Affiniti has been replaced by Aldon Lifecycle Manager PatrickEgan 30 Dec 2002

The Agile Alliance : moved from AgileDevelopment A non profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of agile software development, and helping organizations ...

AgileDevelopment Whats your definition of AgileDevelopment? : Refers to the speed of operations within an organization and speed in responding to customers (reduced ...

the Agile Manifesto We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals ...

Agile SCM Also see SCM Articles and ContinuousIntegration ! The Role of SCM in Agile Software Development Excerpt from Stephen Berczuk and Brad Appleton's book ...

Agile SCM Articles Articles on the subject of SCM or (Development and Configuration Management) Also see articles on Integration Started by BradAppleton 06 Jan ...

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Aldon/CMS Aldon http://www.aldon.com Aldon/CMS is an iSeries (AS/400) change management system designed to bring control, automation, tools and information to ...

Aldon Lifecycle Manager Aldon http://www.aldon.com Aldon Lifecycle Manager is a process centric software configuration and change management solution built for ...

Aldon Lifecycle Manager (iSeries Edition) http://wwww.aldon.com Aldon Lifecycle Manager (iSeries Edition) is the leading Software Configuration Management (SCM) ...

Computer Associates AllFusion Application Life Cycle Management AllFusion™ is an end to end family of application life cycle management solutions for designing, ...

Analysis 1 To separate into elemental parts or basic principles so as to determine the nature of the whole. 2 A course of reasoning showing that a certain result ...

Anthill Build Management Server Anthill Pro is a software BuildManagement server for the enterprise. With Anthill Pro, your entire team can be greeted each morning ...

Anthill Professional http://www.urbancode.com/products/anthillpro/default.jsp AnthillPro is a software build management server for the enterprise. It is truly a second ...

Application Software (IEEE) Software designed to fill specific needs of a user; for example, software for navigation, payroll, or control. Contrast with software ...

As built vs. As Engineered Baseline Audit Form Quick form for manual or copy/paste format to compare as built engineering to as released engineering. Makes for simple ...

Assembly Language A low level language, that corresponds closely to the instruction set of a given computer, allows symbolic naming of operations and addresses, and ...

AtoZed Software http://www.atozed.com The developers of FinalBuilder TateNeedham 19 Nov 2003

Audit 1 (IEEE) An independent examination of a work product or set of work products to assess compliance with specifications, standards, contractual agreements, or ...

From the context of AuditedDependencies It seems I was blind to the fact that auditing is ambiguous, and seems to be interpreted in the context of verification ...

Audit Trail 1 (ISO) Data in the form of a logical path linking a sequence of events, used to trace the transactions that have affected the contents of a record ...

Audited Dependencies From GenericSemantics Genericity is a tradeoff. A generic structure should scale well, and thus allow to focus to wide or fine granularity ...

Avoid Cascading away indefinitely If we avoid to merge back to where we branched off, i.e. to either /main or an integration branch, it seems that we would cascade ...

Avoid Trivial Merges The purpose of merging is to achieve convergence, thus to reduce accidental and useless diversity. This is in line with the motto of SCM: Share ...

BASIC An acronym for Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a high level language intended to facilitate learning to program in an interactive environment ...

Baseline A specification or product that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon, that serves as the basis for further development, and that can be changed only ...

Base ClearCase FAQs : Base !ClearCase designs !ClearCase without UCM . The first FAQ of Base !ClearCase could be: do not use UCM, but as the rest of the answers ...

(Base) ClearCase FAQ: 1.2.16 If I mkelem of a Directory, which is a view private object, I get the "Cleartool Error:Can't create directory element because "directory ...

Base ClearCase FAQ 1.2.2: setview in scripts doesn't work Running "setview" without the " exec" flag starts a new shell. The following contents was found previously ...

(Base) ClearCase FAQ 1.2.7: How to perform mass checkins? On Unix: % cleartool lsco s cview me avobs fmt 'ci nc "%n"\n' cleartool The commands above will fail ...

Base ClearCase FAQ: 1.2.8 What is an evil twin? For reasons essentially bound to the management of a world under evolution, there cannot be full agreement on terminology ...

(Base) ClearCase FAQ: 1.4.1 Why do people put /main/0 at the end of a config spec? This is a good interview question... A typical development config spec looks like ...

(Base) ClearCase FAQ: 1.7.1 Commonly used triggers? Some links can be found both from the IBM web site, and from several independent sources. Here are a few aceptable ...

Configuration Management Benefits Originally from Central All too often, CM is viewed only as a costly and time consuming effort to be either ignored or thrown ...

Biased FAQ After I had written the don't use UCM FAQ answer, I got the following reply: : if your ambition is to add an entry to the ClearCase FAQ the bare minimum ...

This page moved to And Merging BradAppleton 15 Dec 2004

Branch Based Rules in Config Specs This is in the context of (base) ClearCase, and more specifically of branch uses. One can specify element .../some branch ...

Branch: Definition Branch is a uniquely identified sub namespace WITHIN the name space of the version tree of a Configuration Item family. In other words, branch ...

Example of the branch related ClearCase concepts $ pwd /vob/myvob foo.c : A name of the Configuration Item (a Configuration Item namespace ...

Branch Off the root of the version tree We have reviewed that we should: create new branches for changes avoid merging back from where we branched off ...

Branch: Yes ! Merge: No! I'll try to describe and advocate here a novel branching strategy. This builds on ClearCase, and is valid mostly in the context of support ...

Branches FAQ This page contains both brief and more detailed answers related to branching and bases on the branch concept as it is defined in ClearCase. Definition ...

Branches Pros and standard use This is thought of in the context of ClearCase, and more precisely of a new branching strategy. It is surely valid in a broader scope ...

Branches FAQ: How many branches do we need? The short answer is ... as many as you wish. For example, (at least) one per developer. Why? Because : it provides ...

Branching and Merging Resources A list of resources to information about Branching and Merging for Parallel Development initiated 23 Feb 2004, BradAppleton Attempting ...

Configuration Management Branching Strategy Originally from Central This article describes three key branching models used in Software Engineering projects ...

Bug A fault in a program which causes the program to perform in an unintended or unanticipated manner. See: defect, exception, fault . PatrickEgan 18 Dec ...

Rational buildForge IBM Acquired '07 IBM, Inc http://www.buildforge.com BuildForge has features like: Running and scheduling builds by web browsers and a central ...

Build Intelligence From the critique of Yet Another SCM Manifesto I am trying hard to get something out of this discussion with Frank (I hope it would be with others ...

Build Management Automated, repeatable procedures that speed the build process, improve build accuracy and make it easier to create and maintain multiple versions ...

C A general purpose high level language. Created for use in the development of computer operating systems software. It strives to combine the power of language with ...

C An object oriented high level programming language. PatrickEgan 18 Dec 2002

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering. An automated system for the support of development including an integrated tool set, i.e., programs, which facilitate the ...

Change Control/Advisory Board Agenda and Minutes : Originally from Central : This template was based on the IEEE template IEEE 828.1:1990 ...

ClearCase International Users Group (CCIUG) Attachments List : see other ClearCasePages on this CMWiki The IBM developerWorks ClearCase Forum doesn't allow ...

: I'm looking for some information about the differences between traditional software CM and CM for web development if there is any. I just found out that CM is recommended ...

CMBoK #8482; Configuration Management Body of Knowledge This topic has been initiated as a way to collaborate on a standard Body of Knowledge for Configuration ...

Previous: Standards, Process, Resources Next: Contributors and Reviewers Configuration Management Body of Knowledge Appendix B: A Brief Description of our Efforts ...

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Configuration Management Body of Knowledge The Complete Text $ This page is automatically generated from the CMBoK page and its corresponding CMBoK chapter pages ...

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CM Change Control So, as one speaks admittedly of controlling the changes in the (CM) Change Management, one ought to call it actually Change Control rather than ...

CM Cost Effectiveness Here is something that I present to the different teams at my corporation as a selling document for CM. It is formulated from Alexis Leon's ...

CM Metaphors and Analogies #TopOfPage This page is for describing various metaphors and analogies people use to explain what CM is to people who don't yet know or ...

CMstat Tool Topic Page CMstat, www.cmstat.com, is an oracle based CM tool. We currently use it at our company for hardware release management. The database encompasses ...

Publications Buckley, Fletcher J., Implementing Configuration Management: Hardware, Software, and Firmware. New York: The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ...

Synergy\Change Previously named CM Synergy and before that, Continuus CM Telelogic http://www.telelogic.com CM Synergy delivers comprehensive lifecycle support ...

Synergy Frequently Asked Questions Questions (Generated automatically from sections below) (To add a question, just add an entry to the answers ; ) ) Answers ...

IBM CMVC was a tool from the 1990's that meshed defect tracking and source management into a single process. Files were checked into bundles called Tracks that could ...

Configuration Management Yellow Pages A list of CM resources, produts and other valuable links orginally created by André van der Hoek and hosted by Today. CM Today ...

CM and Databases #TopOfPage Information and resources on the subject of CM for databases and database development (including version control of databases, schemas ...

CM or SCM? MarcGirod 23 Jan 2003 This has been consolidated to CMversusSCM PatrickEgan 23 Jan 2003

CM versus SCM? It seems we have separate lists of definitions for Software Configuration Management and for Configuration Management. Are these different? If so, what ...

COBOL Acronym for COmmon Business Oriented Language. A high level language intended for use in the solution of problems in business data processing PatrickEgan ...

COTS Commercial, Off The Shelf Software. Also: Configurable, Off The Shelf Software

(From the Website) ComponentSoftware RCS (CS RCS) is a powerful, inexpensive version control system for Windows. Based on the widely used GNU RCS, it is fully integrated ...

CVS CVS is the Concurrent Versions System. It is an open source version control tool. It is available here: http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/ . From the CVS Introduction ...

CVSNT CVSNT for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS X is a modern version of the Concurrent Versioning System. It is an open source version control tool. It is available ...

Limitations in Cascading Branches Summary The string length of the version extended path is a limiting factor. Above 128 characters, the processing time doubles. ...

Change Control The processes, authorities for, and procedures to be used for all that are made to the computerized system and/or the system's data. Change control ...

Change Control Board : What is a change control board (or "CCB")? How does it differ from a Control Board? NOTE: There has been an interesting discussion thread ...

ChangeMan DS Serena Software http://www.serena.com Automates the complex, tedious task of managing changes to multi level, multi platform software applications ...

ChangeMan ZMF Serena Software http://www.serena.com Software Change Manager for z/OS and OS/390 automates changes to mainframe applications, allowing you to quickly ...

Change Management. The discipline of identifying, assessing and processing and customizations to packaged application suites. Typically, a subset or extension of ...

DESIGNING CHANGE REQUEST WORKFLOWS: http://mariacher.pbwiki.com/f/CM bug workflow.pdf By Eric Mariacher ABSTRACT: There are two kinds of possible change requests in ...

Change Request A formal application for modification to any item including but not limited to code, hardware, documentation, workflow, process or environment. A ...

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Change Request Form and Logs : Originally from Central : This template was based on the IEEE template IEEE 828.1:1990 Change Request ...

Change Request A formal application for modification to any item including but not limited to code, hardware, documentation, workflow, process or environment. A ...

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Rational ClearCase IBM Product Page http://www 3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase Customer Page http://www 3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase/support/index ...

Essential Links Online manuals Technical bulletins What version of ClearCase is supported on what OS Architecture basics server process manager ...

ClearCase Best Practices : originally compiled by Brad Appleton at http://acme.bradapp.net/clearcase : see other Pages on this CMWiki Coming Soon! (to ...

ClearCase FAQs Frequently Asked Questions about ClearCase (with Answers) : originally compiled by Christian Goetze at http://www.miaow.com/clearcase/faq/ ...

ClearCase License Mechanism with FAQ : originally compiled by Yossi Sidi on CCIUG : see other ClearCasePages on this CMWiki DavidBaird 07 Jan 2004 ...

Er... MultiSite is orthogonal to the distinction between Base ClearCase and UCM, so this page is either misnamed, or misplaced, isn't it? MarcGirod 12 Sep 2005 ...

ClearCase Pages A list of ClearCase related pages on the CMWiki. Below is a set of Wiki links to pages containing specific information about ClearCase and it use ...

Add by rdcwayx Disable to delete element: cleartool mktrtype element all preop rmelem nuser cmadmin c "No one can delete an element" exec "ccperl e die()" ...

ClearCase Triggers : see other Pages on this CMWiki A ClearCase Trigger is a an executable program that you create that you can make Clearcase invoke before ...

ClearCase Unified Change Management $ : see other ClearCasePages on this CMWiki Questions (Generated automatically from sections below) (To add a question ...

ClearCase Unified Change Management Triggers : see other ClearCasePages on this CMWiki These triggers are designed to work in ClearCase 4.2 ClearCase 2002 ...

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clearfsimport clearfsimport is a relatively recent tool in the ClearCase toolset, to import and update a vob copy of a directory tree. It is mentioned in a couple ...

Rational ClearQuest is a powerful and highly flexible defect and change tracking system that captures and manages all types of change requests throughout the development ...

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clearmake can be seen as the gem of (base) ClearCase, the key to the conceptual integrity of the original design. It is to date without real competition (with the ...

Client Server A term used in a broad sense to describe the relationship between the receiver and the provider of a service. In the world of microcomputers, the term ...

SCM Process and Activities Originally from Central Effective Configuration Management can be defined as stabilising the evolution of software products and process ...

CM and eXtreme Programing Originally from Central While having a few drinks at the pub, a Software Engineer announced that Xtreme Programing would soon make ...

CM and Tools While SCM tools come with their own SCM philosophies, creating our (not necessarily perceived) SCM realities, what do the CM tools do? Or rather what ...

SCM: a CM Antithesis From CM versus SCM CM and SCM are tightly related, because SCM is born from CM, as its antithesis. CM focuses on splitting the work, ...

Discussion of the opinion that SCM is CM's antithesis Frank Schophuizen Brad Appleton Marc Girod on dimensions, and on complexity. MarcGirod ...

Discussion of the opinion that SCM is CM's antithesis: Brad's opinion (replying also to Frank): : The antithesis as presented by Marc is rather extraordinary ...

Discussion of the opinion that SCM is CM's antithesis: Frank's opinion: The antithesis as presented by Marc is rather extraordinary, and it does not reflect the approach ...

CM Crossroads An online community and resource center for Configuration Management. The CM Crossroads website at http://www.cmcrossroads.com hosts interactive discussion ...

One More Attempt at CM History There is an ambiguity on the term Configuration Management (CM). This used to be a concept in the OSI model of ISO Network Management ...

The Impossibility of CM In his answer to a claim about SCM and CM, Brad described the multi dimensional complexity faced by CM. Paradoxically, he didn't find it an ...

CM Integrations Table of Contents (Generated automatically from sections below) The VCP/RevML Project http://public.perforce.com/public/revml/index.html ...

Library term has become popular in CM, denoting CM data storage, and replacing such terms as e.g. database , repository or registry . Perhaps, the choice of the ...

CM Metrics Below we list a few simple CM metrics that we have used to support the CM audit process. However, be careful, the real power of metrics comes from the ...

CM Outsider point of view From the three different definitions of SCM, the "management of Software Configurations" is the SCM choice. CM's choice is quite clumsy and ...

Configuration Management Standards Originally from Central Looking for official CM standards is somewhat confusing. Below we try and make it easier for you by ...

CM Templates Quick templates to help you start implementing a CM solution. Originally From Central Analysis Questionaire Version Control Tools CM Plan ...

Change and Configuration Management Tools #TopOfPage This list can include all the various types of related tools for Version Control, Bug Tracking, Change Tracking ...

CM Tradition and SCM Culture From PreHistory CM (before SCM) is characteristic of a tradition . In this tradition, the knowledge is individual. Information binds ...

Configuration Management Wiki Web Welcome to the CmWiki.CM web. A wiki wiki web dedicated to providing information and open collaboration about general Configuration ...

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