# About the Software Process category

**URL:** https://discourse.kitware.com/t/about-the-software-process-category/347
**Category:** Software Process
**Created:** [November 18, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/about-the-software-process-category/347 "2019-11-18T14:53:08Z")
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### Author: ![kitware-sysadmin](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/kitware-sysadmin/32/635_2.png) [@kitware-sysadmin](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/kitware-sysadmin)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/about-the-software-process-category/347/1 "2019-11-18T14:53:08Z")

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The **Software Process** category is a place to discuss the method by which SMTK is developed, including:

- continuous integration via [gitlab CI](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmb/smtk/tree/master/.gitlab/ci);
- packaging;
- the [CDash dashboard](https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=SMTK);
- [Gitlab merge requests (MRs)](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmb/smtk/merge_requests/) that cause the tests to via the CI scripts above (in a general sense; discussion about a specific MR belongs in the MR ‒ discussion about how MRs in general interact with testing belongs here); and
- more general discussions about how our testing framework should evolve.