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Subject: Questions about test suites and rating lists

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 21:34:16 02/15/01


1) Can someone summarise for me what the main well known test suites are?

Besides WAC that is..I used to recall a webpage that compared this and someone
help?

2) Given all the complains about the uneven quality of Rating lists, what
factors would you look for in deciding if a rating list is a quliaty one?

Eg

* Number of games
* testing procedures [handling of bugs in book learning etc]
* Quality of testers [Would fewer quality testers be better than lots?]
* Transparancy [availability of games?, policy statements,audits? ]
* Perceived indepedence
* Hardware used


any more? And how do the various rating lists either by organisations [SSDF],
e-zines [e-bit, selective search] or single persons [eg Frank Quisinsky's list]
compare acording to the citerias?

It seems to me that SSDF seems to be the mostly superior in most areas, altough,
they need to work on the perceived indepedence part..





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