You should create a release train when you are ready to request
approval for or begin scoping and scheduling the deployment of one of more
release packages. You can create a release train before or after you create the
release packages that will be associated with it.
Prerequisites:
Ensure you have set up the minimum objects required before you try to
create a release train.
Refer to
Creating Release Elements.
To create a release train:
- In
Work Center,
click
+New.
- Search for the project that will store your release train, and then
select the project to open a Submit form. (By default, the Release Trains
project is used to store release trains.)
- Fill out the required fields and any optional fields and then click
Submit.
- Configure and manage the release train using the tabs that appear in
the form.
Required Fields
The required fields when you create a release train are as follows:
- Title
- Purpose
- Release Manager
- Dates: Specify the dates for the release train stages,
including Start Date, Scoping Complete Date, Construction Complete Date, QA
Complete Date, and End Date. You can also select Quarter Release or Six Month
Release to auto-populate the fields using today's date as the start date, or
calculate them using a specified start or end date.
Optional Fields
Optional fields include:
- Release Engineers
- Release Approval Required: Specify whether approval is
required for the release train to enter production after QA is complete.
Release approval is required by default.
- Message Log
Tabs
The tabs available from a release train once it is created are as
follows:
- Overview: View reports on release packages associated with
this release train. Reports display active release packages by environment and
by state.
- Schedule/Gates: View or update the release train stage
schedule. Specify exit criteria for each of the stage gates.
- Details/Approvals: Specify details of the release approval
item, including the approval level and approvers. Specify the milestone dates
that major aspects of the release should be complete.
-
Notes/Attachments: View notes and attachments that have been
added to the item through the
Serena Work Center
More option and related email correspondence.
- History: View the history of the release train item.
Copying Release Trains
To ease the release train setup process, you can create a release
train and copy it to create new release trains, modifying the information as
needed for the new trains. If you plan to use more than one type of release
train, consider setting up a standard release train of each type that you plan
to use so that release managers can then copy them and complete their
configuration more quickly.
Information that you may want to set up ahead of time so that it can
be copied to various release trains includes:
- Release manager and release engineers
- Gate exit criteria
- Release approval levels and approvers
- Milestones
During a release train copy, release managers select new start and end
dates. Dates for stage gates and milestones automatically adjust relative to
the new train stage dates. Dates can be adjusted manually as needed.
To copy a release train, select the
Make a copy link located on the
More drop-down list on an existing release train.
Note: The release train copy does not copy the associated objects, such
as release packages. These must be added to the newly copied trains.
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