A customer representative is an individual who represents a community that intends to purchase a product. The term is most often applied to a representative of a company who works closely with a producer or developer to clarify specifications for a product or service. The term is used in software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

; especially in development methodology Extreme Programming

Extreme Programming

Extreme programming is a software development methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements...

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