Process · General Industry
Feature freeze
The point after which no new functionality may be added to a product, though bug fixes continue. It marks the transition from building the thing to making the thing correct.
- Type
- Process
- Domain
- General Industry, Programme jargon
Notes
Feature freeze dates are typically set backwards from tape-out by the verification team's estimate of regression closure time.
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