Integrations to Deliver Release Event Control
Agile development has accelerated development – but, it has also dramatically increased the volume and complexity of release events. This has formed a huge bottleneck for release and deployment teams faced with managing this complexity manually – typically, using nothing more than a spreadsheet.
As Development, QA and Infrastructure Teams search for solutions, it can be confusing because the term ‘release’ is over-used by hundreds of different vendors across many different market categories. StreamStep is focused on the ‘release event process’ – encompassing execution and management of the multitude of automated steps, manual steps, tasks and people – beyond the development team – involved in delivering a successful release into an environment.
StreamStep adds value to your existing automation toolset
StreamStep fits right into your existing environment. Just click on the diagram or links below to see the combination of tools that are typically in place at StreamStep Customers. You’ll find details regarding StreamStep’s integration with leading tools – along with links to their websites.
StreamStep is automation for Release Coordinators
Specifically, StreamStep SmartRelease is targeted at the unique needs of Release Coordinators who create, plan, schedule and execute the release event checklist to advance a software release as it emerges from development through the many environments – Test/QA, Integration, UAT – and into production. Developers, QA team members, Infrastructure teams, DBA’s, Managers, and business stakeholders can all be participants in this process.
StreamStep transforms the existing manual creation and management of the release event checklist into an automation framework that kicks off manual and automated release steps. SmartRelease provides visibility and collaboration for the multitude of infrastructure and development resources who participate in the release event process, again and again, as they execute, track and audit each release moving into an environment.
StreamStep is a direct substitute for:
Manual Checklists in Excel, Word, Email – These totally manual solutions are not kept up-to-date and are difficult to manage with the large number of participants and disparate teams involved in the release event process. Keeping track of changes and ongoing status is time consuming and error prone.
Wiki/Collaboration Portals, such as SharePoint or Confluence, with lightweight workflow –These tools are quickly out-of-date with the rapid rate of change inherent in the process and environment. These Wiki’s and Portals serve to look backwards, after the fact, and do not engage people actively in the process.
