Software Engineering

Ian Sommerville

Chapter 25 Configuration management - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

03:35

Problem 1

Suggest five possible problems that could arise if a company does not develop effective configuration management policies and processes.

Sanchit Jain

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01:07

Problem 2

What are the benefits of using a change request form as the central document in the change management process?

Ameer Said

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03:38

Problem 3

Describe six essential features that should be included in a tool to support change management processes.

Oluwadamilola Ameobi

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01:03

Problem 4

Explain why it is essential that every version of a component should be uniquely identified. Comment on the problems of using a version identification scheme that is simply based on version numbers.

Ankit Gupta

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02:06

Problem 5

Imagine a situation where two developers are simultaneously modifying three different software components. What difficulties might arise when they try to merge the changes that they have made?

Adam Conner

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00:59

Software is increasingly being developed by teams where the team members are working at different locations. Suggest features in a version management system that may be required to support this distributed software development.

Vysakh M

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06:02

Problem 7

Describe the difficulties that may arise when building a system from its components. What particular problems might occur when a system is built on a host computer for some target machine?

Willis James

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02:19

Problem 8

With reference to system building, explain why you may sometimes have to maintain obsolete computers on which large software systems were developed.

Akash M

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01:18

Problem 9

A common problem with system building occurs when physical file names are incorporated in system code and the file structure implied in these names differs from that of the target machine. Write a set of programmer's guidelines that helps avoid this and any other systembuilding problems that you can think of.