Mapping of software configuration management issues with the area of responsibility

• Published in: 2014 IEEE 8th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT) pp. 1 - 4
• Main Author: Mohd Fauzi, Shukor Sanim
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-10-2014
• Subjects: Abstracts; Conferences; Configuration Management; Context; Cultural differences; Distributed Software Development; Global Software Development; Software; Software Configuration Management; Software engineering; Systematics
• ISBN: 1479941204; 9781479941209
• DOI: 10.1109/ICAICT.2014.7035937

Majority of the current literature in GSD today only present the issues and solutions related to the social difficulties; cultural, language, time zone and others. There is only little investigation related to technical difficulties; particularly on Software Configuration Management (SCM). SCM is a practice which has been used widely; neither in collocated environment nor in GSD itself. SCM practices can be done without major problems in collocated environment. However, a lot of challenges faced by the team members in GSD environment; for the reason that the coordination and synchronization become more complex. This paper presents our findings of a systematic mapping study of the literature related to the issues concerning SCM and SCM areas of responsibility which have major problems.