1. Change Management

2. Configuration Management
 Software systems are subject to
continual
change requests:
– From users;
– From developers;
– From market forces.
 Change management is concerned with
keeping track of these changes and
ensuring that they are implemented in
the most cost-effective way.

3. Change control tools
 Version and release identification
– Systems assign identifiers automatically
when a new version is submitted to the
system.
 Storage management.
– System stores the differences between
versions rather than all the version code.
 Change history recording
– Record reasons for version creation.
 Independent development
– Only one version at a time may be checked
out for change. Parallel working on different
versions.

4. Visual Source safe
Microsoft VSS helps to manage your
projects , regardless of the file type
(text files, graphics files, binary
files, sound files, or video files) by
saving them to a database.
VSS project organization makes
team coordination easy.

5. VSS features
 Keeps all sources together in one place.
 Keeps history of all files.
 Controls access to resources.
 Physically safe resources – files and its history
are
stored in the VSS incremental database which
is easy to
backup.
 Security by managing access rights to projects
for all
users.
 Versioning.

6. VSS features
 Keeps all sources together in one place.
 Keeps history of all files.
 Controls access to resources.
 Physically safe resources – files and its history
are
stored in the VSS incremental database which
is easy to
backup.
 Security by managing access rights to projects
for all
users.
 Versioning.