Editing Software configuration management (section)

{{Short description|Tracking and controlling software changes}}
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'''Software configuration management''' ('''SCM'''), a.k.a. 
'''software change and configuration management''' ('''SCCM'''),<ref>Gartner and Forrester Research</ref> is the [[software engineering]] practice of tracking and controlling changes to a [[software system]]; part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of [[configuration management]] (CM).<ref>{{cite book | title = Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach | edition = 7th International | author = Roger S. Pressman | year = 2009 | publisher = McGraw-Hill | location = New York}}</ref>  SCM includes [[version control]] and the establishment of [[baseline (configuration management)|baselines]].