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I work as a software developer, and after we finishing developing a program, we have to move it from the development environment into the production environment so that we can test it under real-world condition and the client can start to use it.

I was wondering what the best word would be to describe the process?

  • My boss is fond of "productionize", which i'm not sure is actually a word
  • I sometimes use "deploy/deployment"

I was wondering if there were other suggestions?

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    It goes into "beta," as I recall. A beta version is being tested (probably among a limited set of users or on a limited number of machines) and bugs are to be expected.
    – Xanne
    Apr 26, 2018 at 7:49
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    @Xanne Yes, the Beta test phase is the stage immediately after development, where a lot of testing has to go on (it could be called Alpha testing, but I've never heard that term used). As you say a more or less restricted set of customers agree to act as guinea pigs, run the Beta software in their business environment and feed back problems they find. The fully tested version is then Released (a term presumably derived from the music industry). If there is no Beta phase you go straight to release.'Productionize' is unnecessary and just plain horrible!
    – BoldBen
    Apr 26, 2018 at 8:06
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    @BoldBen - I'm in general agreement. Alpha testing is in-house testing. Beta testing is selected customers using it. But anytime software is given to someone it is "released", so you can have an "alpha release" (or in other words you can "release the alpha version to the testing department"), a "beta release" or I guess the "normal" one would be a "general release".
    – AndyT
    Apr 26, 2018 at 8:20
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    Some people call it "release", but I've always found "escape" to be more accurate.
    – Hot Licks
    Apr 27, 2018 at 2:16
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    @HotLicks So true, some of it even seems to have oozed out by osmosis!
    – BoldBen
    Apr 27, 2018 at 10:00

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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/productize

PRODUCTIZE

To make something into a commercial product.

I often see it used in the software industry.

It implies additional development, e.g. compatibility testing, debugging, documentation.

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Publish. The software is now visible to the users, just as a galley becomes visible to the users once the printed copies hit the market.

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Productionize - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/productionize

Productionalize - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/productionalize

The former is about fitness for the production environment. The latter is about your service|system|etc.'s ability to consume other production services. That's my read anyway.

Deploying is the act of building your code|project and moving the target artifact into an environment where it can start providing service. So simply saying you're "deploying" doesn't carry the same cost or render the same result as "putting your service in production"... Like, for example, you may deploy to a beta stage (or some other pre-prod development stage), you may promote your service to a gamma stage, you may test your service in data via automation and other integration testing methods. You may then finally promote your service to the production stage.

At that point, you've "productionalized" your service. During beta/gamma, you've "productionized" your service by ensuring the highest likelihood (via said testing and testing and testing) that your service can consume up/downstream dependencies sufficiently.

Pedantic, but pithy.

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You may use migrate. This, of course includes only the sense of "moving" not "testing".

migrate: [transitive + from/to] to move information or software from one computer system to another

Please check Longman

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  • -1 It's not about moving software, it's about the software going into another phase.
    – AndyT
    Apr 26, 2018 at 8:16

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