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Software configuration management (SCM), a.k.a. software change and configuration management (SCCM)^[1], is the software engineering practice of tracking and controlling changes to a software system; part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management (CM).^[2] SCM includes version control and the establishment of baselines.

^ Gartner and Forrester Research
^ Roger S. Pressman (2009). Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (7th International ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.