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Audience

Application developers, quality control engineers, and managers (development managers, quality control managers, product and project managers, and production control managers) benefit from using the product in the following ways:

• Application Developers use element actions to develop, manage, and control software changes. For example, based on an approved change order, a developer uses the Retrieve Elements action to retrieve an element from the production stage to a development library. After changing the source code, the developer uses the Add Elements action to add the element to the testing stage. Finally, the developer can use the Generate Elements action to create an executable form of an element.
• Development, Quality Control, and Source Control Managers use element actions to approve and move elements through the stages in the software life cycle. For example, after all functional testing has been performed on source code, a Quality Control Manager can create a package to promote all of the code comprising a specific piece of software functionality to the production stage.