Configuration Management Plan

Configuration Management is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software. Configuration management practices include revision control and the establishment of baselines.

Configuration Management concerns itself with answering the question "Somebody did something, how can one reproduce it?" Often the problem involves not reproducing "it" identically, but with controlled, incremental changes. Answering the question thus becomes a matter of comparing different results and of analyzing their differences. Traditional configuration management typically focused on controlled creation of relatively simple products.