configuration management

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configuration management - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  configuration management
  
     <job> A discipline applying technical and administrative
     controls to:
  
     1. Identification and documentation of physical and functional
     characteristics of configuration items.
  
     2. Any changes to characteristics of those configuration
     items.
  
     3. Recording and reporting of change processing and
     implementation of the system.
  
     See also code management, software life-cycle.
  
     (1996-05-29)