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Subject: Re: Ruffian better than Shredder 7.04??

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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