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Releasing Code

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

The Release process

The Release process defines the actions required to deliver a software product to an external customer. The external customer is any entity outside the development department. This may be a true (paying) customer, or may be another engineering department, for example Testing or Production.

The Release process is a triggered activity. The trigger events are scheduled as part of project planning. Defining a release is a project milestone which must define

What will be released
When it will be released […]

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Fundamentals of Configuration Management

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Configuration Management (CM) is a core process in any development activity. Software engineers realise this more than any other discipline, but for many software teams using Subversion as a source code repository is as far as they get. Configuration Management is a lot more than this.

These articles introduce the fundamental concepts of Configuration Management and what they mean to the development team. Revision control is the most well known and understood CM activity but few extend this to develop artefact […]

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