Software release life cycle

Quality:

Software release life cycle - sum of the phases of development and maturity for computer software, which range from its initial development to its eventual release, and include updated bug-fix versions of the released version. Article "Software release life cycle" in English Wikipedia has 50.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 15 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article "Software release life cycle" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Software release life cycle", its content was written by 899 registered users of English Wikipedia (8281^st place) and edited by 1915 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12389 times in English Wikipedia (1513^th place) and cited 42648 times in all languages (3801^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19 in May 2003
• Global: #135 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2210 in October 2008
• Global: #4149 in August 2009

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Yazılım yaşam döngüsü		53.5847
2	English (en) Software release life cycle		50.61
3	Greek (el) Κύκλος ζωής έκδοσης λογισμικού		47.9995
4	Simple English (simple) Software release life cycle		42.7831
5	German (de) Entwicklungsstadium (Software)		37.6273
6	Catalan (ca) Fases de desenvolupament del programari		30.5504
7	Croatian (hr) Životni ciklus softverskih izdanja		30.1361
8	Georgian (ka) პროგრამული უზრუნველყოფის გამოშვების ცალკეული საფეხურები		28.522
9	Italian (it) Ciclo di vita del software		27.8212
10	Esperanto (eo) Vivciklo de programareldono		26.7768

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software release life cycle		18 094 131
2	Spanish (es) Ciclo de vida del lanzamiento de software		2 431 535
3	German (de) Entwicklungsstadium (Software)		1 471 346
4	Russian (ru) Стадии разработки программного обеспечения		703 118
5	Chinese (zh) 軟件版本週期		619 382
6	Portuguese (pt) Ciclo de vida de liberação de software		553 398
7	Polish (pl) Cykl życia programu		479 604
8	Italian (it) Ciclo di vita del software		452 270
9	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 배포 생명 주기		215 183
10	Arabic (ar) مراحل إصدار البرمجيات		190 410

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software release life cycle		38 950
2	Spanish (es) Ciclo de vida del lanzamiento de software		2 789
3	Russian (ru) Стадии разработки программного обеспечения		2 283
4	Chinese (zh) 軟件版本週期		1 650
5	Arabic (ar) مراحل إصدار البرمجيات		1 451
6	German (de) Entwicklungsstadium (Software)		1 250
7	Simple English (simple) Software release life cycle		893
8	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェアリリースライフサイクル		830
9	Vietnamese (vi) Vòng đời phát hành phần mềm		570
10	Portuguese (pt) Ciclo de vida de liberação de software		543

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software release life cycle		899
2	German (de) Entwicklungsstadium (Software)		209
3	Spanish (es) Ciclo de vida del lanzamiento de software		107
4	Italian (it) Ciclo di vita del software		75
5	Chinese (zh) 軟件版本週期		72
6	Russian (ru) Стадии разработки программного обеспечения		56
7	Czech (cs) Životní cyklus vydání softwaru		42
8	Portuguese (pt) Ciclo de vida de liberação de software		41
9	Persian (fa) چرخه زندگی انتشار نرم‌افزار		39
10	Finnish (fi) Ohjelmiston julkaisuelinkaari		38

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software release life cycle		6
2	Thai (th) วงจรการเผยแพร่ซอฟต์แวร์		4
3	Turkish (tr) Yazılım yaşam döngüsü		3
4	German (de) Entwicklungsstadium (Software)		1
5	Arabic (ar) مراحل إصدار البرمجيات		0
6	Catalan (ca) Fases de desenvolupament del programari		0
7	Czech (cs) Životní cyklus vydání softwaru		0
8	Greek (el) Κύκλος ζωής έκδοσης λογισμικού		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Vivciklo de programareldono		0
10	Spanish (es) Ciclo de vida del lanzamiento de software		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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