Release Management with AccuRev

Release Management comprises a broad set of activities in software development organizations that center around assuring that software is ready to be released to customers. Forrester Research defines Release Management as "the definition, support, and enforcement of processes for preparing software for deployment to production." Release managers are often accountable for several important aspects of software production, including build stabilization, handoffs to QA for system testing, product assessments (for example, describing which defect corrections and features are present in a given build or release candidate), and archiving and escrow activities. Without an easy to use and flexible SCM system, release managers are often forced to write complex scripts or to employ time consuming manual processes in order to carry out their job functions.

AccuRev provides a proven solution for release managers and release engineers to ensure that reliable and reproducible software products are released, without the need for external scripting or manual processes. Among the features that AccuRev provides, the following are most useful to the release management team:

  • Streams in AccuRev are first-class configuration objects that unambiguously store the contents of a release at any point in time
  • The AccuRev TimeSafe Architecture assures that changes to a stream are applied atomically or not at all, eliminating the common problem of broken builds due to incomplete checkins
  • Developers can remain productive by reparenting their private workspaces to a new stream while build and release activities take place on a release stream
  • AccuWork, the integrated issue tracking system bundled with AccuRev, enables traceability between code changes and the requirements or defects that initiated the code changes
  • The stream architecture makes it easy to identify defect corrections and features in one code stream and port them atomically to another, for example, in order to assure that customer hot fixes are incorporated into the next maintenance release

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