Chapter 8 Software Configuration Engineers
The concept of software configuration has been around for a long time, but partitioning within project teams is still something that large companies do. The position of software configuration engineer is mainly assigned to the quality management department to analyze and manage the software quality of the project and cooperate with SCM software tools to deal with it.
1. Job responsibilities
Software configuration engineer’s work content is not much, the main content is to the project code, documents and so on system configuration, to achieve a degree of optimization.
L Cooperate with project manager to configure the system;
L Maintain and manage the configured system;
2, should have knowledge
Software configuration engineer because of the work content is not much, so its work has not so much knowledge, general members of the training can be competent for software configuration engineer.
L Knowledge of computer software;
L Use of configuration management tools;
3. Daily work
The daily work of software configuration engineers is not complicated, which is to configure and standardize the maintenance and management of documents, source code and other configurable content in the project.
4. Methods of experience promotion
Software configuration engineers also need to constantly learn the knowledge related to computer software. Although their work content is not much and not complex, they still need to constantly learn and accumulate their own experience. In the process of work, software configuration engineers need to learn configuration management, and at the same time carry out practical operation practices in the actual work process, so that they can learn the content of software configuration faster and better and apply what they have learned to the actual project process.
5. Communication with other characters
Software configuration engineers do not have much communication with project team members, mainly with software engineers, because they need to configure the source code of the project, and also need to communicate with project managers and copywriters to configure and manage the documents generated by the project.
6. Books to read
Software configuration engineers need to systematically study the books on configuration management, so as to standardize project configuration management. At the same time, it is necessary to read books on version control and maintain and manage software configuration management in a more comprehensive way.
Words to bear in mind
L Everything generated in the project needs software configuration;
L Standardized and configurable management of project contents is required;