Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 14:34:15 01/23/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 17:16:41, Chessfun wrote: >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. Hi Sarah, yes of course, we have a very big group of testers and persons which have interest to test different things all the time. It's very nice to see if I search tester and wrote a message in my forum that I got a lot of mails from interesting persons for build a group. But I believe with 2.000 different readers daily (Forum and webpage) is this normaly. Best Frank
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