Configuration Management

Question 1

What does CM ?

Answer 1

provides a discipline for identifying, controlling, and tracking work products such as test plans, test strategies, test conditions, test cases, test scripts, test results, test logs, and test reports as configuration items.

Question 2

properly support testing, CM ensures the following :

Answer 2

• All configuration items, including test items (individual parts of the test object), are uniquely
  identified, version controlled, tracked for changes, and related to other configuration items so that
  traceability can be maintained throughout the test process
• All identified documentation and software items are referenced unambiguously in testware

Continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment and the associated testing are
typically implemented as part of an automated DevOps pipeline (see section 2.1.4), in which automated
CM is normally included.