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Question #1 CL0:12 Marks: 5 Explain the following: Software Configuration Management and how it is important in the change management process • Code Refactoring • Main Phases and Activities of IEEE Standards Question #2 CL0: 3 Marks: 5 Please provide a description of at least 2 tools of Software Evolution and 2 tools of Software Maintenance, please provide the following details of the tools: - Description of the tools - Working of the tools (how they work) - Screenshots of the tools - Strengths and limitations of the tools

Answer 1

Multiple questions asked, all the sub parts of first questions is answered below:

Question 1.

i) Software configuration management and change in management

• Software configuration management will track the systems and analyse the versions of software, hardware, compatibility among the various versions of software.
• The Software configuration management will takes place on each and every server on a particular manner, thus the team can identify the parts of the systems that are compatible and those are not compatible and need to be upgraded/downgraded. Thus in brief it is a version control system of a software project.
• Software configuration management is important in many aspects of change in management process. The change in management do various management level activities that involves the changes in the project.
• Software configuration management will ease the duty of change management process, since it will cover many aspects that needs to be covered by the change management process.
• Change management process needs to track all the aspects of software and its performance, but the Software configuration management will cover many of it.

ii) Code refactoring

• Code refactoring is a rewriting of the code or modification of the code without changing its ultimate behaviour or the output/input behaviour.
• Code refactoring is doing to improve many factors including:
  • Enhance the readability and third man understanding.
  • Enhance future development.
  • Reduce complexity in terms of side and time.
  • Easy testing/debugging environment.
• Thus to achieve the above objectives the code is restructured, but not debugging or changing the behaviour since code refactoring is doing on a successful working code.

iii) Main Phases and activities of IEEE standards are:

• Project Initiation
• Working group mobilizing
• Standard drafting
• Standard balloting
• Final approval gaining
• Standard maintaining