Biased testing and micro-coaching

[J. Landman Gay]

On July 7, 2017 8:26:53 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> There's a truism that you can't test your
> own software - you're way to close to the way it *should* work to ever
> figure out how users are going to try to use it.

Oh man is that ever true. I'm lucky enough in one of my current projects to 
have a small team of paid QA testers (very rare.) They do things I never 
ever would have thought of. Some of it is so ridiculous that no one in 
their right mind would try it. I get irritated until I remind myself that 
we're paying them to do that. So then I fix it.

The last one was one of those "out of order" sequences I mentioned. It 
caused me to rewrite a huge section that forced users into the expected 
data entry sequence. Took 2 days, but we ended up with a more professional 
app that also eliminated a lot of error checking.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com