Release management: Release phase
Release is the operation of collecting all the deliverables that constitute a new version of your USoft application. You collect these from one or more development machines (the source environment) in preparation for delivering these to target machines.
By performing a release, you make a definitive decision about exactly which deliverables are part of the version.
USoft Delivery Manager helps you collect deliverables by offering a number of release actions that you can easily include in a sequenced release procedure: a task containing task steps. The name of each release action starts with the word Release... .
Delivery Manager collects deliverables in a folder structure on the file system called a release tree.
Each release is characterised by a number of release properties. The most characteristic property of a release is its version name. The version name**indicates the version of the application that the release is for.
Other uses of Delivery Manager
Releasing deliverables is not the only use of USoft Delivery Manager. Its capabilities are also available outside a release setting. For this reason, it offers non-release counterparts for many actions aimed at releasing deliverables, for example:
| Release action | Non-release counterpart |
|---|---|
| Release flat files | Create flat files |
| Release metadata | Export metadata |
| Release deliverable application data | Export deliverable appdataExport all appdata |
| Release publication | Publish publication object |