This introduction to a special issue on release engineering overviews the challenges that release engineers face, featuring highlights from interviews with three practitioners. This article was published by IEEE Software in the March/April issue of 2015. Release engineering focuses on building a pipeline that transforms source code into an integrated, compiled, packaged, tested, and signed product
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