Patent ID: 8190587

Claim:
A computerized method of promoting an image comprising: receiving, in an image promoter, an identification of at least one of a symbol name and an existing symbol value associated with the symbol name; receiving, in the image promoter, an identification of a new symbol value; determining, in the image promoter, a binary file to modify, wherein the binary file is a component of a compiled and linked unpromoted image that is executable; reading, in a binary stamper, the binary file to find occurrences of at least one of the symbol name or the existing symbol value in the binary file; and replacing, by the binary stamper, the existing symbol value with the new symbol value to promote the image, wherein the image is promoted without recompiling and relinking the binary file, wherein the promoted image and the unpromoted image are generated in a same source tree, and wherein the unpromoted image is promoted prior to release from a test environment.