The discipline of identifying the components of a continually evolving system for the purposes of
controlling changes to those components and maintaining integrity and traceability throughout the
life cycle is called:
A.
Configuration management
B.
Request control
C.
Change control
D.
Release control
Explanation:
This is demonstrated in Configuration management of computer-based systems, British Standards
Institution, 1984. The other answers are components of the maintenance activity of software life
cycle models. In general, one can look at the maintenance phase as the progression from request
control, to change control, to release control. *Answer request control is involved with the users
requests for changes to the softwarE. *Change controlinvolves the analysis and understanding of the
existing code, and the design of changes, and corresponding test procedures. *Answer release
control involves deciding which requests are to be implemented in the new release, performing the
changes and conducting testing.