Common software manufacturing problems have a serious impact on a wide range of roles in your company.  To quickly understand how Release Engineering products can solve those problems select your area of interest below.  Select more than one role to obtain a greater understanding of the company-wide impact of these problems and the elegance of Release Engineering's solutions.

The Common Software Manufacturing Problems and Solutions FAQ
• Release Engineer
• Software Developer
• Project Lead/Manager
• QA professional
• QA Manager
• Customer Support
• Customer Support Manager or Director
• Director/VP of Engineering
• CTO for IT focused companies or divisions
• End-user - end-user of your software product, perhaps the most important player of all

Let’s start by defining the term software manufacturing as:

• the physical act of creating a release of the software for sale and/or internal testing
• the physical act of installing the software on an (uncharacterized) end-user system so that it executes correctly
• Verifying that the software on the (uncharacterized) end user system continues to execute properly
• integrating and managing various enterprise tools such as SCM tools, defect-tracking, call-tracking, software development IDE's, etc., so that these tools can share information (as automatically as possible without duplicating data or manual processes)
• branching and merging separate but parallel codelines of development

Software development companies often group the complexities of software manufacturing with general software development concerns, inadvertently obscuring a separate class of problems.  By extracting software manufacturing problems from more generalized concerns of creating and designing new software, the magnitude of manufacturing problems is clarified.  Once this is accomplished, the solutions to software manufacturing problems are more easily realized.   Distinguishing between these realms will help crystallize advancements in both.

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