CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT? 1
1.1 SCM Best Practices 3
1.2 SCM Tools and SCM Process 13
CHAPTER 2 GROWING INTO YOUR SCM SOLUTION 15
2.1 Dealing with Changing Project Requirements 15
2.2 Evolution of SCM Tools 23
2.3 Summary 49
CHAPTER 3 AN OVERVIEW OF THE UNIFIED CHANGE MANAGEMENT MODEL 51
3.1 What Is UCM? 51
3.2 What Is ClearCase? 52
3.3 ClearCase UCM Process Overview 54
3.4 The Architect:Defining the Implementation Model 57
3.5 The Configuration Manager:Setting Up the SCM Environment 60
3.6 The Project Manager:Managing a Project 61
3.7 The Developer:Joining a Project and Doing Development 62
3.8 The Integrator:Integration,Build,and Release 63
3.9 The UCM Baseline+Change Model 65
4.1 The Repository:Versioned Object Base 69
CHAPTER 4 A FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW OF CLEARCASE OBJECTS 69
4.2 Workspaces:Snapshot and Dynamic Views 72
4.3 Project Management:Projects,Streams,and Activities 78
4.4 Versioned Objects:Elements,Branches,and Versions 84
4.5 Component Management:Components and Baselines 89
4.6 Process:Labels,Attributes,Hyperlinks,Triggers 90
4.7 Building:Clearmake,Derived Objects,Configuration Records 93
5.1 ClearCase Architecture Basics 97
CHAPTER 5 ESTABLISHING THE INITIAL SCM ENVIRONMENT 97
5.2 ClearCase Hardware Resource Requirements 106
5.3 Defining the Implementation Model 114
5.4 Creating the VOBs 115
5.5 Baseline Promotion Levels 124
CHAPTER 6 PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN CLEARCASE 127
6.1 What Is a ClearCase Project? 127
6.2 Creating a ClearCase Proiect 130
7.1 Organizing Large Multiproject Development Efforts 145
CHAPTER 7 COORDINATING MULTIPLE PROJECT TEAMS AND OTHER SCENARIOS 145
7.2 Coordinating Cooperating Projects:Independent Components 148
7.3 Coordinating Cooperating Projects:Shared Components 151
7.4 Coordinating Multiple Parallel Releases 154
7.5 Coordinating IS/IT Development Projects 158
7.6 Coordinating Documentation Proiects or Small Teams 163
7.7 Using UCM without Activity-based SCM 166
8.1 A Developer's Perspective of UCM 169
CHAPTER 8 DEVELOPMENT USING THE CLEARCASE UCM MODEL 169
8.2 Joining a Project 170
8.3 Making Changes 173
8.4 Delivering Changes to the Project 176
8.5 Rebasing Your Development Stream 181
8.6 Dealing with Conflicting Changes 184
CHAPTER 9 INTEGRATION,BUILD,AND RELEASE 191
9.1 Software Integration 191
9.2 Isolation and Integration with ClearCase 196
9.3 Building and Baselining with ClearCase UCM 210
9.4 Staging and Release 217
CHAPTER 10 GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT 223
10.1 Distributed Development Challenges 224
10.2 How ClearCase Supports Distributed Development 228
10.3 Multiple Teams:Producer/Consumer Scenario 233
10.4 Multiple Teams:Shared Source Scenario 240
10.5 Single Team:Distributed Members Scenario 245
10.6 Other Uses for ClearCase MultiSite 253
11.1 What Is Change Request Management? 255
CHAPTER 11 CHANGE REQUEST MANAGEMENT AND CLEARQUEST 255
11.2 What Are Change Requests? 256
11.3 The Change Request Management Process 257
11.4 What Is ClearQuest? 261
11.5 How Do I Use ClearQuest Data? 264
11.6 How Does ClearQuest Support UCM? 270
Glossary 273
Bibliography 287
Index 289