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A Typical Software Lifecycle

A typical software lifecycle that CA Endevor SCM manages consists of the following stages:

• Test - Applications are unit tested in this stage.
• Quality Assurance - Applications are system tested in this stage.
• Emergency - Fixes are applied to production code in this stage.
• Production - Production applications are stored in this stage.

The following diagram shows the typical change procedures in a software lifecycle.

In this lifecycle, new or existing code is developed in the development library. After the code has been unit tested by the application developer, the code is added to the Test stage for unit testing. When the code is ready for system testing, it is moved to the Quality Assurance stage. Finally, when the code is ready to be used by customers, the code is moved to the Production stage. Any fixes are applied to production code in the Emergency stage.

If your company requires approvals to move your software code changes through the lifecycle, you must use packages to perform the moves.