ISO/IEC TR 18018:2010 情報技術—システムおよびソフトウェアエンジニアリング—構成管理ツール機能のガイド | ページ 2

Foreword

ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.

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• type 1, when the required support cannot be obtained for the publication of an International Standard, despite repeated efforts;
• type 2, when the subject is still under technical development or where for any other reason there is the future but not immediate possibility of an agreement on an International Standard;
• type 3, when the joint technical committee has collected data of a different kind from that which is normally published as an International Standard (“state of the art”, for example).

Technical Reports of types 1 and 2 are subject to review within three years of publication, to decide whether they can be transformed into International Standards. Technical Reports of type 3 do not necessarily have to be reviewed until the data they provide are considered to be no longer valid or useful.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

ISO/IEC TR 18018, which is a Technical Report of type 2, was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 7, Software and systems engineering.

Introduction

Configuration management (CM) is a process central to the software engineering life cycle. CM has been established as an ISO/IEC standard life cycle process in ISO/IEC 12207:2008, Systems and software engineering — Software life cycle processes and ISO/IEC 15288:2008, Systems and software engineering — System life cycle processes.

ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288 describe a comprehensive set of processes, activities and tasks to be performed when acquiring or developing software. However, these documents do not address the capabilities that a CM tool user can expect from a tool in order to support the CM process and other software engineering life cycle activities. There is a gap between CM process descriptions and corresponding CM process automation which affects both tool users and tool suppliers.

This Technical Report provides guidance in the evaluation and selection for CM tools during acquisition. CM tool evaluation by prospective users can be complex, time consuming, and expensive. This Technical Report helps to characterize what a CM tool can and cannot do in the CM process.

This Technical Report provides guidance for tool manufacturers in implementing a minimum set of capabilities. The capabilities defined in this Technical Report are linked to ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC 15288, and will provide tool manufacturers with guidance on the characteristics their tools should support to meet these International Standards.

1 Scope

This Technical Report provides guidance for configuration management tool capabilities from which systems and software development life cycle activities can be supported.

ISO/IEC 14102:2008, Information technology — Guideline for the evaluation and selection of CASE tools, details a set of evaluation criteria for CASE tools without referencing a specific activity or task which the tool supports. This lack of consideration on a specific activity or task causes users confusion and difficulty in evaluating and selecting the right tools.

This Technical Report supplements ISO/IEC 14102:2008 by providing a set of minimum tool capabilities for configuration management. It can be used as the set of criteria by a potential user during an acquisition process, or by a configuration management tool supplier to help identify desirable tool capabilities.

2 Normative references

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

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