Providing the application for testing

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Some of the common ways to provide your application to customers include: DVD, CD-ROM, or an installation area from which users can run the application.

An installation area is a location in your file system where you can install a version of your software application so that users can run the application. Installation areas are used for testing, reproducing problems, or using your own application within your company. This area usually consists of the executables, libraries, batch files or scripts, and data and configuration files needed to run the application.

As a build manager, you probably will set up many installation areas for different uses. For example, you might have an installation area for a general release your team is working on, called rel_int/3.2. You might have another installation area for your SQE team to test the general release, and that area might be called rel_sqe/3.2. You might have another installation area for a service pack called rel_sp/3.1.

You can provide an application for testing in a variety of ways. See Creating an installation project for a description of one common way to do this.


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