Author: Chessfun
Date: 14:16:41 01/23/04
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On January 22, 2004 at 18:33:25, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On January 22, 2004 at 14:38:23, Chessfun wrote: > >>On January 22, 2004 at 10:28:29, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >> >>>On January 22, 2004 at 10:16:24, Chessfun wrote: >>> >>>Hi Sarah, >>> >>>>Seems to me you simply need more beta testers, enough to produce say 500 long >>>>games in say 2 weeks. My guess minimum 6 testers testing 24 hours a day. >>> >>>Good beta testers are every time a good for a faster development. >>>We are happy that we have our support forum for Arena and can see faster >>>mistakes. >> >>I don't refer to arena Frank. I specifically refer to Ruffian. You wrote >>"What have the Ruffian team to do if a new version is available >>(example: Ruffian 2.1.0)? >>01. Test the version 1 week! >>02. Test the version 2 weeks! >>03. Test the version 1 month! >>04. Test the version 2 months! >>05. Test the version 6 months!" >> >>My point is simple. If you have enough testers you don't need 1 month, 2 months >>or 6 months to decide whether the version you have is good enough to release. >> >>Sarah. > >Hi Sarah, > >that is right! > >Testers are not a very big problem, we have in the past more as 100 persons in >the Arena test team which make a very very strong work and I have x contacts to >different other persons too (thinking on my chess mail address book). I will >build a little group and I am sure I will get enough helps for test a new >version. Having 100 for Arena Frank I'm not so sure makes them all candidates. Many for example joined so as to get Ruffian 1.0.5. But I do think there are many candidates with which to build a small team to make beta testing a far more tried and quicker process. >Maybe you have interest too? Frank, that sounds like a solicitation. But seriously I wouldn't be interested but I'm sure many others would. Sarah.
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