IBM Rational ClearCase, Ant, and CruiseControl: The Java Developers Guide to Accelerating and Automating the Build Process

The Software Build and Release Management process does not stop when your build has been compiled, integrated, and unit-tested. This chapter looks at how software releases are constructed and deployed. First, I define what development artifacts are typically packaged as part of a release. Then I look at how Release Builds are constructed and their outputs made available for packaging and subsequent deployment.