TITLE:
Categorization of Software Release Risks and Its Abatement Strategy
AUTHORS:
Arti Rana, S. P. Singh, Rachna Soni, Ashish Jolly
KEYWORDS:
Software Release Management, Change Management, Release Deployment
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.7 No.12,
November
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: Growing competition in the
software industry with the persistently changing needs and the usualproblems associated with software
release, which have made acceptance of a new software inmarket, are extremely important for
the success. Volatility in the software developmental processes is generally
difficult to handle. The change request at any arbitrary point of time leads to
the inevitable change and rework request. The software release process which
broadly includes all the process that starts after the completion of
development till the final deployment. This complete phase is exposed to
various risks which may hamper the final result. This paper presents threat
associated with software release activities and their possible mitigation and
exploring the role played by the change management in controlling or reducing
those risks.For the effective survival in ever changing software industry
needs, Software Release Management takes a holistic view of the change and
configuration relationship and work on the improvement strategies for the
effective release with zero defect potential.