Roles in Change and Transport System

Successful transports of software changes into your production systems can only take place when the people involved cooperate effectively in their various roles. Any changes made in the production system must be the responsibility of more than one person. The roles involved in the transport process must be well-defined and documented, together with their activities, and the communication flow between the individual persons in these roles must also be well-defined.

The following roles can be involved in the transport process:

• Developer

  Developers release their own transport requests in Transport Organizer.

• Project Lead

  The project lead can have the following tasks:

  • Define and organize development projects
  • Verify the content of transport requests before they are released (for example, verify that syntax checks are performed for all objects)
  • Confirm that the transport request was released and exported successfully
  • Check that the transport request was imported in the target system
  • Confirm that the imported transport request contains the required objects and correct functions
• Transport Administrator

  The transport administrator is responsible for the transport of transport requests, for the import of the requests, and for checking whether the import was successful. The transport administrator is not responsible for testing the content of the transport request.

• Quality Assurance (QA) Team

  The QA team tests all functions and the integration of the individual components of the transport request in the quality assurance system.