Testing and deployment strategies - their impact on accelerator performance

The Accelerator Control system is developed by the Controls Group in collaboration with numerous software developers from equipment groups to provide equipment experts and operation crews with general and specific control and supervision software. This presentation proposes a review of the different strategies applied for testing, validation and deployment of the software products. The risk and impact of these strategies on the LHC [1] performance and availability will be studied, and possible evolution to continuously improve this performance will be discussed.