Golden master, or GM, is used to identify software that is close to the end of its development cycle. After the beta testing stage, a golden master is seeded to developers to confirm the absence of significant bugs before it is released to manufacturing or commercial distribution.[1]
A golden master may be preceded as a release candidate (RC), referred to as going "silver", in which the code is frozen and any remaining non-critical bugs are noted, before release to manufacturing (RTM), referred to as going "gold", in which the software is cleared for release.[2]
References[]
- ↑ Golden Master (GM), Techopedia. Accessed 2020-05-19.
- ↑ Golden Master, The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary. Accessed 2020-05-19.
External links[]
- Apple Developer Program at Apple
- Developer World at Apple Developer World (archived 1997-01-02)
- Go gold at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
- Golden Master at the Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
- Software release life cycle: Release at Wikipedia
- gold master at Wiktionary
