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Configuration Management

You should adopt working procedures, if necessary supported by a software tool, to follow a protocol such as the one above. Use rigorous methods to perform the following tasks:

• Identify component dependencies. That is, decide which components must be changed along with other components.
• Monitor component usage. That is, identify whether a component is already undergoing modification.
• Check out components into the development environment and record that they are in use.
• Progress components through testing.
• Move modified components back into the live production environment.
• Keep an audit trail of all such modifications.