A software engineer working on a software project needs to have a development and test environment that is setup on systems that are "production like". To setup a development and/or a test environment is a time consuming process. Developers use either their workstations or virtualization products to help in that effort. Any solid software project uses tools to help track issues, revise code via a revision control system and collaboratively work on the developer's documentation. By using Amazon EC2 and expanding a bug tracking system it is conceivable to automate the process of creating the development and test environments on demand. This project will automate this process from bug report to development environment via click of a button. This push button enhancement to an existing issue tracking system will spawn an environment on demand. By reducing the environment setup time for each developer a company stands to save significant amounts of money. Additionally the ability to get systems on demand via outsourcing the IT services to a cloud provider such as Amazon's EC2 saves a company IT setup and administration costs.
