${local-app} is a Change Management application. This means each ${local-app} ${term-artifact-capitalized-singular} can be seen as a Change Request artifact which is useful to track bugs, tasks or improvements. Global Configurations have a limited participation in Change Management applications because it does not make sense to have different versions of a Change Request. There is no reason, for example, to have a Task-123 version A for the American Plane and the same Task-123 version B for the Europe Plane. In such case, Task-123 is created for the American Plane and Task-124 is created for the Europe Plane. Global Configurations, however, are still useful in this context to allow a Change Request to link with a specific version of a Test Case or Requirement. Getting back to the example, Task-123 needs to work with American Plane requirements and test cases, whereas Task-124 needs to work with Europe Plane requirements and test cases.

${local-app-connector} considers all ${local-app} ${term-artifact-capitalized-plural} as Change Requests and provides a way to determine what Global Configuration to use when linking with remote versioned artifacts. This is done by mapping ${local-app} ${term-deliverable-capitalized-plural} to corresponding global configurations.