Foreword

WE are pleased to present the proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG 2013), which was held in San Francisco on Monday the 20th of May 2013, co-located with ICSE 2013. With an actual release engineer as one of the co-organizers, 40% of the PC consisting of actual release engineers, and a separate abstract track for practitioner reports (in addition to a regular academic track), RELENG has been built from the ground up to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of release engineering to meet each other and share experiences, tools and techniques to help organizations release high quality software products on time.