Evaluate Two Software Configuration Management Tools: MS Perforce and Subversion

Software is easy to change to compare with hardware systems because software is not constrained, as hardware, by the physical laws. Therefore Software Configuration Management (SCM) becomes paramount today to track, control changes in software to ensure that software is developed with limited budget, acceptable cost, and required time frame. In this paper, we concentrate on the evaluation of two popular configuration management tools: MS Perforce and Subversion. The evaluation follows a systematic evaluation procedure and the qualitative and quantitative results are carefully reported. The proposed and applied evaluation procedure can be reused for similar objectives.