Version models for software configuration management
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Software Configuration Management Guidebook
Software Configuration Management Guidebook
Palantír: raising awareness among configuration management workspaces
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
"Breaking the code", moving between private and public work in collaborative software development
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
An Experimental, Pluggable Infrastructure for Modular Configuration Management Policy Composition
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Mae---a system model and environment for managing architectural evolution
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
SubCM: A Tool for Improved Visibility of Software Change in an Industrial Setting
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Aligning software configuration management with governance structures
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Software Development Governance
Dissecting configuration management policies
SCM'01/SCM'03 Proceedings of the 2001 ICSE Workshops on SCM 2001, and SCM 2003 conference on Software configuration management
Branching and merging: an investigation into current version control practices
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
Proactive detection of collaboration conflicts
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
The Choice Calculus: A Representation for Software Variation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Managing forked product variants
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1
The effect of branching strategies on software quality
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
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To improve software quality, you must first understand your software. If you do not understand your code base, your odds of updating it without breaking something are poor. Often, a fundamental misunderstanding of software configuration management (SCM) as it applies to real-world application development is at fault. Branching is integral to version management, software build correctness, and release management. Good decisions about when and why to branch can make it much easier for developers and release engineers to coordinate software product changes. The right branching strategy makes it easier to deliver the right code, re-create past releases, and--if necessary--roll back to a previous release. Adopting the right SCM branching model facilitates rapid development, increases overall product quality and process efficiency, reduces the incidence of software failures, and improves organizational performance.