Choosing a SCM-tool: a framework and evaluation

Author

Kilpi, Tapani

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Process. Sci., Oulu Univ., Finland

fYear

1997

fDate

8-9 Apr 1997

Firstpage

164

Lastpage

172

Abstract

An organisation seriously involved in the software business needs a tool based SCM system. There are numerous SCM tools of several tool vendors on the market at the moment. However, buying a tool is never the only solution to configuration management problems in an organisation. In practice it is best for an organization to choose the most suitable tool, and build the rest to get an effective SCM system. The SCM tool selection needs to be based on defining the software product management process, noticing the software engineering environments (SEEs) and the possibilities to add incremental components on the top of an SCM tool

Keywords

configuration management; programming environments; software development management; software selection; software tools; SCM tool selection; SEEs; configuration management problems; incremental components; software business; software engineering environments; software product management process; tool based SCM system; tool vendors; Buildings; Documentation; Engineering management; Environmental management; Information processing; Resource management; Software development management; Software engineering; Software tools; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Environments, Eighth Conference on

Conference_Location

Cottbus

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8019-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEE.1997.591828

Filename

591828