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Subject:Re: Name wanted: documenting changes From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:55:22 -0700
>From: Mike Collier - SSG[SMTP:MikeCol -at- SBSERVICES -dot- COM]
>>
>I'm looking for ideas on what to name a category of documents that are
>produced to report on changes to software. These changes are business
>driven and are made to an order entry system to satisfy the needs of a
>particular client when requested.
>
>I think the analogous term for documenting hardware would be
>"engineering change notice;" the term "release notes" would seem to be
>an a obvious choice, but this particular system is ad-hoc and formal
>version/release numbering hasn't been employed. The changes to be
>documented include modifications to SELECT statements, new program
>calls, changes to schema.
>
>Any suggestions on what to call it?
><<
How about "software change notice"?
In the Army, we have Engineering Change Proposals (ECP), which normally
apply to hardware. The same thing for software is Engineering Change
Proposal-Software (ECP-S).
FWIW.
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