Application releases represent a version of an application or project, where the application or project architecture is specified by components. An application release may be associated with a single release train and may have one or more release packages associated with it.
Direct associations with application releases include the following:
Release Packages represent a portion of IT or service infrastructure normally built, deployed, tested, and released together. Release packages define the set of changes to be deployed and drive the deployment processes. One or more development change requests and deployment units are associated with each release package.
Business Change Requests represent customer or business unit change requests that affect specific application releases. They are typically associated with tickets from help desk or incident management systems such as Serena Service Manager or other SBM solutions.
Application Release planning activities include the following:
For all user actions in the default release train workflow, see Actioning Application Releases Through the Workflow.