Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:11:27 09/09/00
I understand now that in most of the cases the beta testers get the commercial version of the program that they test so they get some payment. When I replied the opinion poll question I thought only about getting the beta version without getting the commercial version. I think that it is better to pay them money for their job when they will have to buy the package of beta+ commercial version. The reason for it is that not all the beta testers do the same job and I think that it is not correct to give the same payement for different jobs. Here is an example. Suppose beta testers are asked to give games from some known positions against known opponents at 1 hour/game time control. Suppose one of them gives 100 games and another one gives only 10 games(nobody of them gives more information). I think that the tester who gave 100 games should get better payment. If you tell all the testers to give the same computer time you cannot use some testers who have less time and cannot use efficiently some testers who have more computer time to give(because they have more computers or because their computers are not busy in other tasks). Uri
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