Purpose
  • To ensure that the adopted promotion method is followed such that 'quality work' that has been reviewed, tested and approved is taken into a higher level staging area for successive subsystem and system level integration.
Input Artifacts:
  • Any Artifact
 Resulting Artifacts:

  • Any Artifact
Frequency: On-going
Worker: Any worker
Tool Mentor: Using ClearCase to Check Out and Check In Configuration Items, Using ClearCase to Promote Configuration Items

Promotion addresses the notion of integration of work from multiple implementers. As such, promotion is an important step and a 'quality gate' that needs to be passed before work can be accepted into a higher level 'staging area'. There are various promotion methods, and the one adopted for the project needs to be followed for consistency. Guidelines on the selection of the various promotion methods is described in Concepts: Component Promotion Method.

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