An item of software, hardware, or firmware, such as a computer or a computer program, that (a) may consist of many parts and (b) is treated as a unit to effect configuration management and configuration control. See also computer, computer program, control, configuration, configuration control, configuration management, effect, firmware, hardware, software, unit.
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Weik, M.H. (2000). configuration item. In: Computer Science and Communications Dictionary. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_3526
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