Some thoughts on testings...

[David Bovill]

Just to add to this thread - a little tangentially maybe - a lot further can
be got within the Rev development community by using the community to
develop robust components and libraries. By this I mean developer testing
using something akin to the philosophy of open source development and unit
tests.

This would not replace user testing in the sense being discussed - it would
just pick up some of the bugs before this stage. The main advantage of this
would be the cost - the testing comes as a by=product of developers using
code. This is not happening a the moment while it does in other coding
environments - which is why they have extensive libraries of well tested
code. Of course well tested depends on both the community concerned and the
testing and developing infrastructure they use?