Configuration Management?

Configuration Management?

[Alex Fitzpatrick]

This is a confidential survey of software engineering professionals
about configuration management tools for Carleton University.

Please answer the following questions from your current experience.
(Please reply to the sender, not to the newsgroup!)

1. What is your current role?
- software developer
- team leader
- software architect / analyst
- project manager
- quality assurance / tester
-  other (specify)

2. Would you describe bringing a new team member up to speed as:
- easy
- moderate
- difficult

3. Can changes in implementation be traced to their causes?

4. Does your development documentation match your implementation?

5. Is your current project on schedule?

6. Does your team have a defined software engineering methodology?

    If yes, which one?

7. Does your project use a configuration management (CM) system? (If no
please skip to question 13.)

8. Which CM system do you use?

9. What are the best features of this tool?

10. What do you feel is missing from this tool?

11. Does your CM system improve the quality of your project?

12. Do the benefits of using your CM system outweigh the disadvantages?

The following question applies only to people who are not using a CM
system.
13. What features of a CM tool would entice you to use one in your
project?


Thank you very much for answering this survey. If you are interested in
the results, please contact:

Alex Fitzpatrick
Carleton University / School of Computer Science
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
afitzpat@chat.carleton.ca