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Release Engineering is it a part of the Quality Assurance process, or separate?

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2006-08-14 14:03:41, Category: Programming & Design
When it comes to software and hardware development there are several processes that are put in place to ensure a product gets to market successfully. Two of these processes are Release engineering and Quality Assurance. My question is where release engineering sits and why: Is Release Engineering: a: a subset of QA b: owning a part of QA c: in its own business having nothing to do with QA

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  1. Roy C

    On 2006-08-15 08:29:34


    Answer C The "Release" comes from Design Engineering, those are the folks who write the specs, design the product (or outsource it from a vendor), make drawings of it, and do the tests (Design Validation) to be sure the product meets the customer's requirements. The Design Engineers make up the drawings and prints, to which the QA Department will run inspections. The QA folks assure that the product conforms to the specifications and drawings as prepared and released by Design. It's not that Design has nothing to do with QA, it's that both work together so closely that sometimes you can not tell who is on what side of the line. I say that Design Engineering writes the Release, but you ask who is "Release Engineering" so I think your company has names for groups that are a bit different from the ones I was in. That's OK. I guess your "Release Engineering" are people who make sure that the QA people are using the correctly "released" documents, and they could be part of either the QA staff or the Design Engineering staff.