hair-pulling frustration

[Éric Miclo]

Hello,

I do agree that more testing (non automatic testing) should be made before releasing a commercial product.
But I’m not sure RunRev will listen.

When the CEO says:
 "I really would urge everyone in our community to move to 7 as soon as possible. We spent 18 months building it and considering the amount of change its getting very good results stability wise. There are issues but they are mostly minor."

When minor bugs are so many, I don’t consider it is minor to test and fix before releasing a commercial product.
And by fixing I mean test if the fix really fixes the bug so it doesn’t have to be reopened immediately.
It is not the amount of time spent on a product that is an indicator of quality.

My 2 cents.

Best,

ÉrIC

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> Le 13 nov. 2014 à 10:27, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> a écrit :
> 
> Really, why wouldn't it be realistic to pay a bunch of students for a few hours of beta-testing (or should I say alpha-testing) some time in a development cycle? I'm sure they could detect the bugs that every other developer would detect right-away, but without frustrating those developers because the people paid by RunRev have sorted them out already!
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> On 11/13/2014 09:13, FlexibleLearning.com wrote:
>> If this were a realistic option, Edinburgh would have permanent testing
>> staff. The language, syntax and interaction permutations are simply too vast
>> for any automated testing whether by machine or human. As Richard G says,
>> ensure your own software is robust with each new version and log any issues.
>> The cumulative effect covers as much as is feasible.
>> 
>> If you find a problem, log it don't hog it.
>> 
>> Hugh Senior
>> FLCo
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> I agree. I have always felt that RunRev should occasionally hire one or two
>> people for beta-testing. They could test new releases before they are
>> labelled pre-release. This would cost only a little money and safe hundreds,
>> if not thousands of people lots of frustrations.
>> 
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>> 
>> Mark Schonewille
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