IS&T | Release Engineering

The Release Engineering team assists project teams in ensuring that IS&T services are production ready. Our testing engineers build automated API tests, performance tests and regression tests, as well as offering consultation regarding testing strategies. In working with project managers, business analysts and software engineers during the development and go-live phase of the project, the team gains familiarity with the application and/or service. This enables Release Engineering to properly direct enhancement requests and problem reports after go-live. Release Engineering team members:

Consult with project teams regarding testing strategies to ensure that IS&T deployed applications, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings are production ready.
Build API tests, performance tests and automated regression tests.
Triage problem reports and service requests for the Operations area, including Application Delivery, Cloud Platforms and the Integration team.
Partner with the Service Desk Escalations team in administering IS&T's Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings, such as DocuSign, LabArchives, LastPass, QuickBase and Qualtrics.

The Release Engineering team assists project managers, business analysts and software engineers in ensuring that IS&T's deployed applications, Application Programming Interfaces and Software-as-a-Service offerings are production ready. Our testing engineers build automated API tests, performance tests and regression tests, as well as offering consultation regarding testing strategies. The Veracode platform is available to IS&T staff for security testing. See Testing Services Overview for details about our services.


Release Engineering assists project managers, business analysts and software engineers in ensuring that IS&T's deployed applications, Application Programming Interfaces and SaaS offerings are production ready.	See sample timelines to understand the testing processes and estimate the time frame.

Determines if APIs meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security. Ideally, written as the API becomes available in the Dev and Test environments.	Determines how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload. Also serves to investigate, measure, validate or verify other quality attributes of the system, such as scalability, reliability and resource usage.

Regression testing validates that set of defined use cases behave as expected. Consult with Release Engineering Team as to whether automated regression tests make sense for your project.	Release Engineering team can facilitate your use of the Veracode security platform. Veracode enables developers to detect security vulnerabilities and receive suggestions for mitigation.

Use this form or email release-engineering@mit.edu to submit your service request to Release Engineering.