Abstract—Release planning is an important activity in the software development that can adjust budget and time over various releases. Most software companies always concern about the best delivery of a new release although new features and needs are available. Effective parameters on release planning adopt certain values in a project but as a result of their ambiguity and diversity they take different values in a same project. Therefore, despite existence of various release planning methods, release planning process is deficient. This means that every method performs planning task by the help of defined algorithms and specific parameters. The present paper aims to develop a general process for release planning which result from investigation of common tasks and steps of current release planning method. Then, certain patterns are obtained by customizing the common tasks and steps. It also explains how to generate the patterns and achieve them in order to plan for a release.

Index Terms—Pattern-based, software, release planning.

Amir Seyed Danesh and Rodina Ahmad are with the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur (e-mail: amir_s_d@siswa.um.edu.my, rodina@um.edu.my).
Seyed Mahdi Zargarnataj is with the Information System Architecture Research Center,Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: m.zargarnataj@gmail.com).

Cite:Amir Seyed Danesh, Rodina Ahmad, and Seyed Mahdi Zargarnataj, "Toward a Pattern-Based Release Planning ; International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 46-50, 2014.