A Two-staged Survey on Release Readiness
S. M. Didar Al Alam, Maleknaz Nayebi, Dietmar Pfahl, Guenther Ruhe · 2017
Deciding about the content and readiness when shipping a new product release can have a strong impact on the success (or failure) of the product. Having formerly analyzed the state-of-the art in this area, the objective for this paper was to better understand the process and rationale of real-world release decisions and to what extent research on release readiness is aligned with industrial needs. We designed two rounds of surveys with focus on the current (Survey-A) and the desired (Survey-B) process of how to make release readiness decisions. We received 49 and 40 valid responses for Survey-A and Survey-B, respectively.