[openbeos] Re: Testing.

["Matt Verran" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Time to approach you about this one...

I emailed you at the beginning of OBOS to offer services as a beta/
usability tester, to which you replied to wait until some code was 
written! So now we are there, are we going to have a beta tester 
conscription? Can dev/beta releases be made on CD to people like me who 
can't download the source due to having a *very* thin pipe connection 
to the net?

There's a great wealth of people in coding, and I haven't been able 
able to contribute there, but now code is arriving, I can offer my 
services as a systems tester, since that is my day job for a major UK 
bank's financial system.

Let me know if you still want me on board :)
Regards,
Matt (M)

> Hi y'all.
>  
> I've recently been added to the list of beta testers, and I was 
> surprised
> that the beta testers "team" does not have a leader. I put to Aaron 
> that we
> would be giving code and asked to break it, as opposed to having any
> co-ordination or scripts or anything, and he thought that might be 
> the case.
>  
> I am no "skilled" tester - I'm a Java developer - but I do realise 
> the
> importance of testing and the importance of focusing that testing. I 
> feel
> that with no proper co-ordination the testing stage will be next to 
> useless,
> and lets face it, if any type of software that needs good testing, 
> it'd be a
> new OS.
>  
> Maybe I am getting ahead of myself, but should we not be on the look 
> out for
> a professional tester who could co-ordinate the beta-testing, so that
> beta-testers time is well spent and meaningful. Make sure that 
> certain
> features / apps are tested in different conditions / systems / etc.
>  
> Cheers - Col.
>  
> (ps - don't get me wrong here - I am not offering myself for this 
> post - I
> haven't the ability - although I can follow test scripts, when 
> written =] )
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