At 09:56 PM 6/27/2002 -0700, you wrote: >And I'll go one step further! In commercial software having the better >product is a sure fire bet not to win. The "first and better" product >will always die after the fast to market product with a larger >advertising budget kicks ass. Yes, But that's no argument against testing, it's an argument for short development cycles *with* Q&A and it's an argument FOR user testing. >Also keep in mind that another hallmark of commercial software products >is that they don't do everything that a user wants - otherwise they >would be using custom software. Again, same thing. >Another odd thing about commercial products is that having worked on >over a dozen commercial titles myself, I have yet to see any of them >get past the 1.0 mark. I would see some titles get to that stage, but >there were very few. In fact most commercial publishers need to get >several titles out to market in a season, then they wait to for a >winner - and then pick that title for an upgrade. Of course most of the >titles that I worked on which sold were just put together with other >titles at a discount by year two. That's interesting :) >By the way it's important to note that commercial software and custom >software are very different subjects in terms of QA. In fact custom >software seems to be about nothing else but testing, adding features >and making changes to "get it right". And that's a scary look into the world of commercial software (coming from custom software). I always had the impression it was the other way round :) Peter __________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message with unsubscribe in the subject to webproducers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To access our webform (instead of sending e-mail) for popular commands including subscribe, unsubscribe, digest, and vacation visit www.WebProducers.org. You can also access the list archive at the website. Questions and comments are welcome just e-mail me, morry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx