Applying software configuration management in Web sites developement: a case study

Due to the need of making quick business and reducing the time-to-market, a small enterprise does not generally rely on solid and highly methodological software engineering bases. However, the necessity for clear and replicable methodologies for electronic archiving of the history of software products has been individuated by WebPower as a milestone for achieve better quality and satisfy the increasing number of customers. To this purpose, a Process Improvement Experiment, co-founded by the European Union and aimed at the introduction of Configuration Management in the software development process (mainly Web sites), has been conducted. The experiment will be briefly outlined and some first results presented and commented.