CI and Release Management Survey

Last week we offered a survey on Continuous Integration and Release Management practices to webcast attendees and readers of CMCrossroads. The results confirmed some of our suspicions about the state of software development. Most teams are using some automation, and have tools in place to ensure repeatable builds. But while a leading edge of teams are pushing that automation and traceability further towards release most are not.

It's particularly striking how little teams know about the builds the release into production. Roughly a quarter of respondents can not identify the source code that matches the build in production. Only 60% can determine who promoted a release to production and less than half can show how well their production releases performed in testing.

As an industry, we're getting pretty good at build, but are still struggling with release management.

Follow the link to complete survey results and analysis. Results are still coming in and we plan to update our summary page as appropriate.