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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Stress Testing and QA before release
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-03-12 4:35:43
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On Monday March 11, 2002 08:06, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> On Monday 11 March 2002 22:32, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Yeah, but if he does this once, it will allow 200 others to walk
> > through the tests easily, getting quality testing done in 200 x the
> > situations.
>
> Predetermined QA testing on GUI tends to be in-effective (captures a
> small number of all present problems) and much more volunteer-killing
> (tedious and non-selfishness-rewarding). If anybody wants to do some,
> excellent. But there is a major probability that efforts to develop QA
> tests be unsuccessful (by their very nature) and this will simply
> alienate testers.

That's true.  I wouldn't suggest that this battery of tests would be a 
substitute for normal beta testing.  I just think that a scripted test, 
allowing particular new or changed bits to be tested, would be a good 
addition to what is done now.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

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