Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Software Configuration Management (17.E2510)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Applied Computer Science and Informatics

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Information Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Information and Analytics Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Software Engineering and Information Technologies (Godina: 1, Winter)
Master Academic Studies	Computing and Control Engineering (Godina: 1, Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	6

Educational goal:

To make students capable of applying best practice, methods, techniques and tools in the domain of Software Configuration Management (SCM) with the emphasis on the SCM process introduction and improvement.

Educational outcome:

At the end of the course students are capable of: introducing SCM best practice, methods and tools in the software development process, improve existing SCM process, analyze available tools and identify advantages and disadvantages of each, understand pros and cons of different version control systems, change management systems, build and release management systems, systems for managing alternative lines of development etc. By using modern SCM tools and by the development and documentation of SCM process and the development of supporting application, students acquire a broad range of practical skills.

Course content:

Theoretical lectures: Basic definitions and historical development of Configuration Management - CM. Traditional notion of CM; Identification of configuration, change control, status accounting, audit and verification. Configuration management in the context of software development (Software Configuration Management - SCM). Source code management; Version Control System - VCS; architectures, advantages and disadvantages : social coding; repository models; concurrent change management models; alternative development courses. Dependency management. Build management, automation, tools. Change Management; Events; Requests for change tracking; support systems. Issue management; identification; traceability; automation. Deployment: identification, authentication, security, planning. Industrial standards and frameworks. Models of maturity. Practical classes: file compare tool patch and diff. Centralized version control systems (Subversion). Distributed version control systems (Git, Mercurial). Tools to support issue tracking (Trac). Code review (ReviewBoard, Rietveld, Gerrit, barkeep). Tools for automated build (Apache Ant + Ivy, Maven). Systems for continuous integration (Jenkins). The design and documentation of the SCM process in accordance with the recommended practice. Creating Web applications to support the proposed SCM process.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, Computer exercises; Consultation. Design and implementation of project assignment by working within project teams. At the end of the semester, public presentations of the most successful teams are organized with the discussion of the obtained results. The defense of project assignment is oral. The final exam is oral. Final grade is based on the score from the final exam and project defense.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Scott, Ch., Straub, B.	Pro Git (second edition)	2014	Apress, Berkley	English
Gupta, A.	Docker for Java Developers: Package, Deploy, and Scale with Ease	2016	O Reilly	English
A. Mette, J. Hass	Configuration Management Principles and Practice	2003	Addison Wesley	English
Ott, B., Pham, J., Saker, H.	Enterprise DevOps PlayBook: A Guide to Delivering at Velocity	2017	O Reilly	English
DoD USA	Configuration management guidance	2001	Department of Defense--United States of America	English
Rensin, D.K.	Kubernetes : Scheduling the Future at Cloud Scale	2015	O Reilly	English
Berczuk, S. & Appleton, B.	Software configuration management patterns: effective teamwork, practical integration	2003	Addison-Wesley Professional	English
Aiello, R. & Sachs, L.	Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World	2010	Addison-Wesley Professional	English
Goasguen, S.	Docker in the Cloud: Recipes for AWS, Azure, Google, and More	2016	O Reilly	English
Reed, J.P.	DevOps in Practice	2014	O Reilly	English
Chacon, S.; Hamano, J. & Pearce, S.	Pro Git	2009	APress	English