Release management: SoftFluent’s experience – 11/12

Tools summary

Considering the numerous elements detailed in these discussions, we mentioned different tools that are useful to our Research and Development department.

 

Area

Tools

Roadmap Planning

Internal tool: Excel lists of modules and features

Product Design

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 & especially WorkItems (tasks & bugs)

Development

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010, JetBrain Resharper, Redgate .NET Reflector

Embedded in our product: Actipro SyntaxEditor

Documentation

Innovasys HelpStudio & DocumentX

Internal Tool for schema « DocMaker »

Testing

Rich internal tooling for UI automation

Build management

TFS Build, MS Build, Internal tooling, WIX, CodeFluent Templating Engine

Release/version management

SoftFluent.Licensing, Direct integration with our web site

Licensing & activation

SoftFluent.Licensing, internal technology for activation and obfuscation

Support

WordPress blog, YAF forums, Customer-organized dedicated mailbox

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