Can any one explain me the difference between Version control and Configuration Management?
Per my knowledge, Version control is related to keeping track of the changes done to the software and providing the ability to view the history of changes and also being able to open the code of any version. So that, we can ignore a particular modification done to the software( if it proved to be not reliable)!! ( Is this correct????)
I have no idea about Configuration Management!!
Configuration Management is wide topic.
It is a process that, among other things, manages change control and creates baselines. Basically it is implemented for the purpose of surveillance.
As i understand it, QA people help set the standards, for different things, and Configuration Management people make sure those standards are followed.
Configuration Management is a discipline applying technical and administrative direction and surveillance to –
Identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a configuration item
Control changes to those characteristics,report change processing and implementation status, and
Verify compliance with specified requirements
VSS - is a Configuration Management tool.
per my previous comment in the original thread, VSS is NOT a configuration management tool. It is a version control tool. Very different animals. VSS lacks many of the components and features required to make it a true configuration management tool.
Version control is a sub-topic within configuration management. It is very similar to "testing" being one aspect of QA.
More than just version control, configuration management includes all the administrative controls and processes that are in place to identify, evaluate, control and track change. And it it is not limited to just code. Configuration management, in addition to source code control, also covers things like requirements, documents, test scripts, etc. That includes even the SDLC processes themselves.
Stripped down to it's essentials, configuration management is about what you are going to do when a change is suggested. Who evaluates the change? Who approves the change? Who tracks the change? How is the change implemented?
VSS is a version control tool and it is not a configuartion management tool, it just keeps track of code changes and version changes.
and also keeps a document integrity, only one user can modify a document at a time
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