Software Configuration Management: Coordination for Team Productivity [Paperback]

Wayne A. Babich (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 162 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd) (February 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201101610
• ISBN-13: 978-0201101614
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,201,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Software Configuration Management : Coordination for Team Pr, May 23, 2000

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Terrence Leip "Terry2006" (Chandler, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a small, easy to read book that covers the basics of SCM better than most of the books on the market. Even though it's currently out of print, this is probably one of my all time-favorites books on SCM, especially when I'm trying to introduce the concepts to first-time readers. Many of the books seem to talk around the subject and never actually get down to what the fundamental aspects of SCM actually do.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars None Better for Basic Principles, September 29, 2001

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Mark W. Randolph (Kansas City, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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Until I read this book, I'd only recognized the problems of sloppy source code control, but couldn't describe them, couldn't solve them, couldn't prevent them. Can you explain the symptoms of the double maintenance, shared data, or simultaneous update problems? Do you know the difference between configurations, revisions, and variations?

Be aware, this book cannot be used for hands-on how-to-do-it advice as the technology in the book is VERY dated and relies on examples from Ada, FORTRAN, and SCCS. CVS had not even been invented when this book was published. But, I've seen 300 page tomes on the subject that can't match its explanations of basic principles. What is the "double maintenance" problem anyway?

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I've found for basics, July 30, 2010

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If I was a manager, this book would be required reading for all new hires.

It's the best book I've found to explain WHY you want to use SCM rather

than HOW to do it. I recommend it to anyone I talk to about SCM. The

good software developers take the hint and thank me later; the others

just want a cookbook list and don't want to understand the principles.