Release readiness report
The Release readiness report details criteria based on internal standards and compliance requirements.
- Are release preparations final and is the version meeting all quality criteria?
- Did the reviewers submit the required approvals?
- Is the version thoroughly and properly tested against the quality criteria?
- Do specific issues exist for this version now that require additional attention?
- Click
Insights, and then select Reports.
- Select the Release readiness field under the
Templates heading on the left side of the page.Note: When the Release readiness field is selected, a vertical blue bar is displayed on the left side of the field to indicate it as the report to run.
- Click the Run report button to display the RUN REPORT window.
- In the Pipeline / value stream drop-down, select the required value stream and pipeline from the list.
- Optional: In the Stage containing release candidates (optional) field, enter the pipeline environment containing the release candidates.
- Optional: In the Targeted release stage (optional) field, enter the
environment.Note: To set the report inputs as default, click the Set as Default button.
- Click the Confirm button to run the report.
- If the report ran successfully, in the Status field of the table
below the Run report button, a green circle and
Complete is displayed. Note: If a red circle and Failed is displayed, run the report again.
- After the report runs successfully, in the line item for the report in the table, click Results to view the Release readiness report.

- Report header
- Release summary
- Release content
- Release quality & security
- Release process
Main section | Subdivision |
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Report header | Value stream name, Release name with Scheduled date, Application name with CANDIDATE and CURRENT VERSION details, Readiness score, Time in stage, Deployment success rate |
Release summary | Release summary |
Release content | Candidate version, Changes introduced since version (number), Contributors |
Release quality & security | Approvals, Current version quality & security metrics, Current application quality & security metrics, Pipeline gates |
Release process | Release activites, Value stream - highest priority items opened |
Report header
Under the Application name in the report header, the CANDIDATE and CURRENT VERSION details including environment, version, and date are displayed for each. These two versions are compared with one another with the results listed in the report sections contained in the table above. The Readiness score, Time in stage, and Deployment success rate details are also displayed in the report header.
Readiness score

Field | Description |
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Status | Indicates the state of the specific criteria as success or fail with the green or red symbols respectively. |
Criteria | Specific area of focus for this release candidate. |
Target | Based on the criteria, what is the optimal value for success? |
Actual | Based on the criteria, what actual value was achieved? |
Score | The percentage of success between the Score and Actual values. |

Release summary
Release content
The Candidate version section identifies details for the specific build including names, issues, PR and commits. The Changes introduced since version (number) section lists the items that are added to the CURRENT VERSION to represent the CANDIDATE version including issues, PR and commits. The names and number of owners providing changes for the aforementioned items in the new version are listed in the Contributors section. Links are provided in each of the aforementioned sections to view information for specific items.
Release quality & security

Release activities
In this section, you can view scheduled or releases in progress and any prerelease activities necessary prior to moving into the production environment. Links to specific release activities are provided in this section.
Value stream - highest priority items opened
This section monitors specific issues in the value stream for the candidate version that require attention and resolve prior to release. Links to specific work items are provided in this section.