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No control of any sort is possible for a software system unless the system, the versions of the system and its component parts can be uniquely identified. This is not just a bureaucratic, administrative problem; consider the problem of finding an error in a system if several versions exist and it is not known which has exhibited the error.
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© 1982 J. K. Buckle
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Buckle, J.K. (1982). Configuration Identification. In: Software Configuration Management. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16819-4_4
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