(Originally published by me on www.servicevirtualization.com ) This is the first of two parts discussing the problem of software release management and how automation can be properly used to alleviate these problems. ITIL has Release Management. There are also Six Sigma and CMM. These are all process-oriented "libraries" that deal with the development and release of tangible products or business services. Yet ask any application development professional if any of these deal with the actual problems of software release and they will unanimously answer "no." After CA Technologies announced that it had acquired Nolio , the leader in software release automation, I started taking a closer look at the actual problem that Nolio addresses. And what I found is this: current literature on software release addresses the process-related problems but none has yet discussed how to address the realities of the actual movement of software from one environmen
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