Software Configuration Management

Ian Somerville is a strategy consultant, executive educator, and social entrepreneur. As managing partner of Somerville & Associates, he engages businesses, governments, and community-based organizations in bringing about breakthrough economic and social results. As a former managing partner with Accenture, he founded and led strategy consulting practices and the firm's global business think tank.

Smooth operations with square operators - The version set model in ICE.- Fine grained version control of configurations in COOP/Orm.- An empirical study of delta algorithms.- Inter-File Branching a practical method for representing variants.- An architecture for a construction system.- Configuring versioned software products.- HiCoV: Managing the version space.- Work space management in Software Engineering Environments.- System compositions and shared dependencies.- Infrastructure for wide-area software development.- Distributed revision control via the World Wide Web.- The asgard system: Activity-based configuration management.- Experience report on the maturity of configuration management for embedded software.- Experiences with the use of a configuration language.- Introducing configuration management in an organisation.- An odyssey towards best SCM practices: The big picture.- Best practice for a configuration management solution.- Fully supported recursive workspaces.- Experience of using a simple SCM tool in a complex development environment.- Configuration management as 'glueware' for development of client/server-applications in heterogeneous and distributed environments.- Post-Deployment Configuration Management.- Change sets revisited and configuration management of complex documents.- Modeling the sharing of versions.