Configuration Management Overview

Research in Configuration Management (CM) in SERL is focused on the following two topics:

• Identifying and developing CM system architectural components to facilitate rapid construction of CM systems.
• Extending the scope of Configuration Management functionality beyond the traditional development support to address releasing and deploying software.

In particular, we are addressing these issues in a global setting, i.e., where a group of software development organizations is participating in a physically distributed and decentralized effort to create one or more software systems.

We have developed a number of technologies to address the issues that arise in such a setting. To build CM systems that support geographically distributed development, we have taken an initial step in creating NUCM: a generic, peer-to-peer repository for Configuration Management. DVS is an example distributed CM system that we have constructed to demonstrate NUCMs capabilities. To deploy the often complex systems of systems that result from these development efforts, we have built SRM, a software release manager, and the Software Dock, an architecture and set of tools for distributed resource configuration and deployment over the Internet.

Projects

	NUCM	Distributed configuration management
	SRM	Software release management
	Software Dock	Distributed resource configuration and deployment over the Internet
	DVS	Distributed versioning system for collections and artifacts

Other Activities

	Eight International Symposium on System Configuration Management
	Configuration Management Yellow Pages
	Configuration Management Job Listing Page
	Software Deployment Information Clearinghouse