A very interesting article on beta testing of commercial software: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1007600207
Lots and lots of good points there; the interviewee is as keen as I am on tools which make everything visible to everyone. (As you can probably guess I'm not impressed with the way RITLabs does beta testing*; it's too haphazard and the _testers_ cannot see how, and if, their data are being handled which, in my case, is offputting. Witness the IMAP closure problem, which RITLabs told me was duplicatable and would be fixed yet has been hanging around for three builds so far!) Alastair * that said, very few get it anywhere near right; StarOffice, with a Sun-hosted newsgroup and the Sun staff posting responses to that newsgroup (rather than privately to the testers), was not bad. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.messagelabs.com/stats.asp -- _________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbbeta.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Beta: 1.54 beta/15 Wish List : http://wish.thebat.dutaint.com
