Describe the notion of “promotion” of artifacts used in configuration management.
Answer: In managing the development and testing of artifacts, it is important to lock those artifacts that have achieved certain level of completion to prevent the artifact from any change and possibly regressing.
All the artifacts that have reached the same level of achievement, such as completing functional test, is moved and locked at that level, say level “x.”
This joint moving and locking at level “x “ is called “promoting to level x.”