A code freeze is essential for the fiscal year-end financial closeout for the following key reasons:
- Ensures stability: Prevent new bugs or system changes during closeout to financial systems
- Protects data integrity: Safeguards financial data from unintended errors or corruption
- Reduces disruptions: Minimizes risk to financial processes
- Supports accurate reporting: Enables smooth reconciliation
- Protects finance team resources and time: Allows the finance team to focus on the closeout activities without being diverted to other projects
CAB = Change Advisory Board meets every Thursday except as noted above during code freeze.
Code freeze is a period during which no new changes, updates, or enhancements are made to software applications or systems in production environments. All development activities are temporarily halted, including adding features, making modifications, or fixing non-critical bugs. A code freeze aims to stabilize the systems and prevent introducing new issues, ensuring reliable operation, particularly during critical periods like financial closeouts, high-traffic events, such as seasonal promotions or holidays, or major launches.
The code freeze at ACS includes ceasing any changes to transaction coding or processes that may impact revenue or expense processing and ensuring uninterrupted and accurate financial operations. ACS will review and consider non-financial change exceptions during code freeze, including workstation updates and server decommissions.