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Subject: Re: Questions about test suites and rating lists (SSDF independent)

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 05:09:53 02/17/01

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On February 16, 2001 at 09:31:12, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:

>On February 16, 2001 at 00:34:16, Aaron Tay wrote:
>>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..

>I think that SSDF can not be more independent than we are.
>Complete independent.
>
>Venlig hilsen
>Hans Christian Lykke (SSDF)

That's worthless if people [some anyway] don't PERCEIVE that you are
independent.





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