4.2 Projects

ACME

Mr. Brad Appleton, coauthor (with Stephen Berczuk) of Software Configuration Management Patterns , has developed a set of Web pages titled the ACME ProjectAssembling Configuration Management Environments (for Software Development). The site contains many links to resources and papers as well as recommendations for further reading on software configuration management, including several papers by Appleton and Berczuk that were seminal works on SCM patterns and form the basis for their book. They define software configuration management as

the process of identifying, organizing, controlling, and tracking both the decomposition and recomposition of: software structure, functionality, evolution, and teamwork. In short, SCM is the "glue" between software artifacts, features, changes, and team members ; it forms the ties that bind them all together from concept to delivery and beyond.

The ACME Web site includes a large number of definitions of configuration management collected by Mr. Appleton.

AdCoMs

The AdCoMs, ESPRIT Project No. 22167, was a European research project to define, develop, and implement a generic process model and pilot-demonstrator to manage and control product data shared across an extended company. The model had to be sufficiently flexible to be able to handle continuously changing business needs. The result of the project was an extremely large model for product configuration management aimed at the European industry, primarily the space industry.

DaSC

The Database and Selectors Cel configuration management model is a change-oriented approach that supports concurrent, distributed software development. It is a research project at the Institute for Information Technology in Ottawa, which is part of the National Research Council, Canada.