Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 12:31:55 02/24/03
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On February 24, 2003 at 15:12:56, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 24, 2003 at 14:21:00, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On February 24, 2003 at 14:05:21, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On February 24, 2003 at 13:37:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>3. The pros are much more organized in testing, and have multiple machines >>>>dedicated >>>>to playing programs, with a person or persons responsible for looking at the >>>>games played >>>>to see what is going on... >>> >>>I have no data to prove that theory and I believe that top amateurs also get a >>>lot of machine time by beta testers. >>> >>>Uri >> >>I agree that top amateur engines probably get quite a lot of machine time by >>beta testers aka users, too. >> >>But there is a major difference to professionals IMHO - they don't really _get_ >>the time, decisions what to test or how to test are usually done by the users >>themselves and the testing is in most cases not organized. Users test what they >>find interesting, with settings that they are most interested in etc. etc. >> >>That's logical as for the beta-testers the testing is a hobby, too, not a job or >>an organized project. >> >>But to draw any useful conclusions from the data is very difficult for a >>programmer IMHO, even if the beta-testers test very carefully. >> >>Decide for yourself - what would you prefer? 6 computers donated to you to test >>movei on your own, or 10 betatesters who run testmatches with movei as they see >>fit? >> >>I think beta-testing of amateur engines doesn't suffer from too little >>enthusiasm of the testers, but I am sure professional engines are tested in a >>much more "scientific" and better organized way. >> >>Peter > >I do not know how you can be sure about it. >I believe that there are testers that do exactly what the programmers ask them >to do. > >The commercial programs may have problems to get beta testers > >I Remeber a case when Millenium went to court against a beta tester because they >did not like things that the tester wrote about shredder. > False. It was about that he wrote about a tested prog that he could NOT have had officially as Stefan had declared. You see the difference? At least that was one point, there were others. Rolf Tueschen >Uri
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