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Suggest five possible problems that could arise if a company does not develop effective configuration management policies and processes.

In version management, what do codeline and baseline terminologies stand for? List the features included in a version control system.

Imagine a situation where two developers are simultaneously modifying three different software components. What difficulties might arise when they try to merge the changes they have made?

Software is now often developed by distributed teams, with team members working at different locations and in different time zones. Suggest features in a version control system that could be included to support distributed software development.

Describe the difficulties that may arise when building a system from its components. What particular problems might occur when a system is built on a host computer for some target machine?

With reference to system building, explain why you may sometimes have to maintain obsolete computers on which large software systems were developed.

A common problem with system building occurs when physical filenames are incorporated in system code and the file structure implied in these names differs from that of the target machine. Write a set of programmer's guidelines that helps avoid this and any other systembuilding problems that you can think of.

Describe six essential features that should be included in a tool to support change management processes.

Explain why preparing and distributing a system release for mass-market products is an expensive process.