In the field of SQA the term Configuration Management refers to a process in which QA engineers seek the best possible solution of handling the changes during the software project stages. It's sole responsibility is to maintain the integrity and traceability of the software development process. This goal is achieved by identifying various functional & physical attributes of software during several stages of development, and it performs systematic control of changes to identified attributes.
The process of configuration management was initially developed by the US department of Defense (DoD) in the 1950's as a technical management discipline.
But the processes concepts have been widely...