code freeze

Code freeze occurs three to four months before code release.

Don't they use the concept of code freezes to ensure that only bugs are fixed prior to launch?

Code freeze is the stage when new code is no longer added to the game and only bugs are being corrected.

A code freeze, in which no changes whatsoever are permitted to a portion or the entirety of the program's source code.

In nightly builds that have been released since the beta 3 code freeze, the bookmark process has been refined further.

The verse number 15:1 refers to the code freeze of Firefox OS 1.0 (January 15, 2013).

A 'feature freeze', for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features; a 'code freeze' connotes no more changes at all.

On March 5, 2009, Buytaert announced a code freeze for Drupal 7 for September 1, 2009.

Our annual code freeze makes us change the the way we think about what will go into our pre Christmas release, updating our core content management and delivery system.

On Monday, 11 May 2009, after build 10A354, Apple issued a code freeze on Snow Leopard's APIs.

Production releases are branched from a snapshot of the development codebase (following a code freeze) and undergo a QA process that includes backporting security updates and bug fixes.

Code freezes are often employed in the final stages of development, when a particular release or iteration is being tested, but may also be used to prevent changes to one portion of a program while another is undergoing development.

Particularly in large software systems, any change to the source code may have unintended consequences, potentially introducing new bugs; thus, a code freeze helps ensure that a portion of the program that is known to work correctly will continue to do so.