The impact of rapid release cycles on the integration delay of fixed issues

• Main Authors: DA COSTA, Daniel Alencar, MCINTOSH, Shane, TREUDE, Christoph, KULESZA, Uirá, HASSAN, Ahmed E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Integration delay; Rapid releases; Mining software repositories; Release engineering; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8770; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9773/viewcontent/daniel.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The release frequency of software projects has increased in recent years. Adopters of so-called rapid releases—short release cycles, often on the order of weeks, days, or even hours—claim that they can deliver fixed issues (i.e., implemented bug fixes and new features) to users more quickly. However...