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Few days ago, I published an article in which i covered the topic Top five release management tools which are high in trend these days. Today, I am going to write on the same topic but there is one difference, today we will discuss about open source release management tools.

In this article I am going to share top 5 open source tools for Release Management. But, if you want to know about Release management and it’s benefits than you can check out the previously written article here.

So, Without any further ado in this article, let’s directly move to the main section.

Let’s check out open source release management tools.

1. CruiseControl

CruiseControl basically known as continuous integration tool. It can be used in Release management process. Cruisecontrol is an open source tool which is written in java and supports cross platform and it was developed by CruiseControl development team and initially released in the year 2001. You can extend this tool with the help of plugins and extensions.

2. Luntbuild

LuntBuild is known as Build management and continuous integration tool. This one is another open source release management tool which is written in java ans supports cross platform. This tool is developed by PMEase. This tool is easy to install and configure. It has a clean web interface.

3. Maven

Maven is also known as build tool but it’s also an open source release management tool which is written in java and supports cross platform. Maven was initially released in the year 2004 and developed by Apache Software Foundation. Maven can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages.

4. Jenkins

Jenkins is one of the most popular tool for Continuous integration but it can be used as a release management software. This software is written in java and it was initially released in the year 2011. It was developed as a Hudson project as Sun Microsystems which was later take over by Oracle corporation. The great thing about this tool is its functionality can be extended with plugins.

5. Subversion (SVN)

Subversion or SVN is a versioning and revision control system but it also can be used as Release management software . You can say this one is the leading release management tool in the open source category. This tool is written in C and it supports cross platform was developed by CollabNet Inc in the year 2000.

So, That’s it. Now it’s your turn , share your views in this article and if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than fee free to share with us the in the comment section below.

These days the software industry is going under transformation and lots of new tools and skills introduced in software development process. So, today we will talk about a similar process & tool which plays a vital role in Software development. The process name is Release management. In this article we are going to help you to select best release management tools which are mostly used by professionals these days.

But, before moving forward let’s have a look on to the Release management.

Let’s see what is Release Management ?

As per the “wikipedia” Release management is the process of managing, planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; including testing and deploying software releases. But in simple words we can say “Release management is a process to oversees development, testing, support and deployment of software.” It is comparatively new process in the comparison of others but growing rapidly within the software development process.

It’s growing rapidly which means it’s really beneficial in “Software Development Life Cycle”,

So let’s have a look on to the benefits.

1. Team Collaboration — Release management helps to bridge the gap between development & operation team by involving them into the process through information sharing and instant communication.

2. Configuration Management — Release management helps to know what environment setting is, application requirements, and dependences exist in the production, test, and development environments.

3. Efficiency — Release management helps to increase the efficiency by reducing the time which spent on finding and fixing the problems with the help of tools which ultimately results to deliver reliable and quality software faster to the market or customer.

4. Increased Productivity — It also helps to increase productivity by pre planning of the best practices in the release process through which teams can utilise there times on important things rather than figuring out the what steps should be next or versions should be used or any other stuffs like that which delay the delivery process.

5. Minimizing Failure Risk — Release management helps to reduce the risk of release failure by making strong policies and allocation of works based on researched information and by providing them real time visibility into the release status which helps them to find the possible cause of failures and they can act on them quickly.

Now, let’s move on to the next section. Release management is not an easy task to do. It requires team coordination , build versions tracking , transparency and much more. There for release management requires dedicated tools to make this process easy. So, I have done some research and choose the top 5 release management tools which are mostly used these days by professionals.

Here is the list:-

1. Serena Release Control

Dashboards and Reports
Environment Management
Planning and Control
Communication and Collaboration
Managing Deployment and Task Lists
Enterprise Scalability

2. ElectricFlow

Microservices and Container Orchestration
Shared Visibility
Process as Code
Advanced Deployment Strategies
Enterprise Security and Compliance
Automation at Any Scale
Automated Rollbacks
Environment Reservations and Calendaring
Built-in Artifact Repository

3. BMC Release Process Management

Easy to use
Executable checklist
Centralized management
Meaningful metrics
Extensive reach
Better planning

4. URelease

Multi-Application Continuous Delivery
Impact Analysis
Release Pipeline Visualization
Release Gates
Deployment Plans and Templates
Federated Release Dashboard

5. XL Release

End-to-end release dashboards
Complex pipeline orchestration
Automation that scales
In-depth analytics and reports
Enterprise auditability and controls
Easy to use

So, This is my list of Top release management tools. Hope you guys will like my efforts and if you think this list should contain some other tools instead of this than feel free to share with us in the comment section below.

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