Method of software release

Author: Zhang Baixing
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: In this book, Mr. Michael E. Bays presents expert-level techniques that have never been publicly published before and demonstrates how he designed a coherent integration and release process, which is far more effective than what you are currently doing. Those who think they can achieve software product success through casual integration and release are simply delusional! This book provides you with the "best practices" at each stage of the journey to product release success; source code control, product creation, product testing, defect tracking, code integration, software change management, and release engineering. Regardless of the size of your project or software development team (large or small), you will find that the practical solutions meticulously designed by the author of this book can help you improve software quality, reduce software costs, and quickly capture the market! This book focuses on the following topics: Why product creation is so difficult and how to solve the problem effectively, how to manage software releases on hard media, soft media, and network media; how to prevent issues in media management, the compilation, numbering, and naming of release versions, setting customer expectations and avoiding confusion, how to implement change control throughout the software development process; establishing organized solutions for release management and services. In this book, Mr. Michael E. Bays presents expert-level techniques that have never been publicly published before and demonstrates how he designed a coherent integration and release process, which is far more effective than what you are currently doing. If you are responsible for a successful software release, this book will be the most important one you buy this year.