Chapter 2. The Software Environment

The Software Environment

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To use software configuration management (SCM) properly, you need to understand how its techniques fit into the larger picture. This chapter discusses some of the other aspects of the development environment and the processes we use to create and maintain them so that we can understand how SCM fits in.

General Principles

By Software Configuration Management, we mean the set of processes that one uses ...

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