Title
Key Aspects of Software Release Planning in Industry
Abstract
Software release planning is the process of deciding what to include in future release(s) of a product. Basically the problem can be seen as a company-wide optimization problem involving many stakeholders where the goal is to maximize utilization of the often limited resources of a company and turn them into business benefit. Saliu and Ruhe have proposed a set of key aspects for release planning methods, of which only a subset have been validated in industry. In this paper we use the Saliu and Ruhe key aspects as a starting point for identifying key aspects of release planning. To do this we have performed a multiple case study involving 7 international industrial companies, all producers of software intensive products. Our contribution is (1) a more strict meaning of a release planning key aspect, (2) validation of some of the aspects proposed by Saliu and Ruhe, and (3) an extension of the key aspects. We also capture state-of-the-practice for release planning in industry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483220
Australian Software Engineering Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
software management,company-wide optimization problem,international industrial companies,software intensive products,software release planning,decision-making,release planning,software
Software release life cycle,Personal software process,Systems engineering,Computer science,Package development process,Software project management,Release management,Software construction,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-0803
978-0-7695-3100-7
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Markus Lindgren170.64
Rikard Land2101.16
Christer Norström370.64
Anders Wall470.64