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    Software configuration management for multiple releases - influence on development effort
    (2007) Maludziński, Sławomir P.
    Software Configuration Management (SCM) evolves together with the discipline of software engineering. Teams working on software products become larger and are geographically distributed at multiple sites. Collaboration between such groups requires well evaluated SCM plans and strategies to easy cooperation and decrease software development cost by reducing time spent on SCM activities - branching and merging, that is effort utilized on creation of revisions (»serial« versions) and variants (»parallel« versions). This paper suggests that SCM practices should be combined with modular design and code refactoring to reduce cost related to maintenance of the same code line. Teams which produce several variants of the same code line at the same time should use approaches like components, modularization, or plug-ins over code alternations maintained on version branches. Findings described in this paper were taken by teams in charge of development of radio communication systems in Motorola GEMS divisions. Each team collaborating on similar projects used different SCM strategies to develop parts of this system.