What is Application Packaging ?

     Application Packaging is kind of process in which Files, Registries and components are customized using some tools and delivered to customer as per their requirnments.

Tools used - Installshild, Wise Package Studio, ORCA etc

    Application packaging involves the preparation of standard, structured software installations targeted for automated deployment.

    Automated installations of applications must fulfill the installation requirements for a specific environment: corporate standards for software usage and desktop design, multiple languages, regional issues, and software-related support issues.

    To build the correct MSI database format packager must collect information about each application.
    Items include executables(EXE), installation instructions, configuration parameters, test instructions, and hardware and software dependencies.
    Once this information is gathered, the packaging effort is designed to produce a Windows Installer–based into a Microsoft OS, packaging engineers must determine whether a new application introduces conflicts.
    The conflict management process is designed to ensure that DLLs do not interfere with each other and that any required application isolation is configured into the MSI database.


Generally Packaging Involves

1. Source Validation
2. Packaging
3. Quality Assurance (QA)
4. Verification of functionality (VC)
5. User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

I will be discussing all of this phases in deatils in my upcoming posts.

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