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Archive-name: sources-test-faq
Last-modified: Apr 24, 1994
Version: 1.9
Frequently Asked Questions for comp.sources.testers
This article contains the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
concerning comp.sources.testers. To submit questions (preferably with
an answer) send email to: sources-testers-faq@sterling.com. If you
wish to get the latest version of this file, send an email message to
send-cst-faq@sterling.com and it will be mailed to you.
Many FAQs, including this one, are availabl archive site
rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name
under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line at
the article. This FAQ is archived as sources-test-faq.
This article addresses:
o What was comp.sources.testers created for ?
o Why not use alt.sources ?
o How do I get added of deleted from the list of testers ?
o Where do I test my news software at ?
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Subject: What was comp.sources.testers created for ?
CHARTER:
The purpose of this newsgroup is to give authors of software packages a
place to post in hopes of finding people willing to test their packages.
No source should ever be posted to comp.sources.testers.
comp.sources.testers should be used as a first stage before posting to
any of the source newsgroups, including alt.sources, comp.sources.misc,
comp.sources.games, comp.sources.unix, the various machine specific source
groups, and even comp.sources.reviewed.
Most of the subject lines should look like
Subject: Need beta testers for ppother portable bitmap converter
or perhaps final announcements like
Subject: Done with gamma testing for ppmtovcr, posted to c.s.misc
along with acknowledgments. Cross posts into comp.sources.testers are fine
when there's an appropriate subject group. Topics like
Subject: What metrics do you use for evaluating object-oriented programs?
belong in comp.software-eng, not comp.sources.testers.
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Subjee alt.sources ? It seems to have been serving
the community well.
There are those that would *disagree*... Initially, alt.sources was
established as a place where the net could post sources that was not
moderated, such as comp.sources.unix. Its usage has evolved into a
group where authors post beta software in hopes that people take the
time to compile/debug them. The author then hopes to hear of problems
from those who took the time to look at their packages. This approach
forces all problems to be aired in public. Communication with the author
before beta testing begins is not how alt.sources works today, flooding
the net with alpha/beta software is.
Blasting sources out everywhere is not for c.s.testers. The idea is to
put people together to work towards improving a package. Authors may
not want to post alpha (read that as knowingly buggy) code to the world.
Many times the author of a package would like to have a small group of
people actively working on a program. Often the author sets up a mailing
list for the group members to use to pass ideas and bug fixes back and
forth. It is much easier to post "oops, I was dumb" messages to an
isolated, much smaller, and more interactive group than to post messages
of this type to the world.
Another problem with alt.sources is that many sites do not take the
newsgroup e on the end of slow links which must pay to
receive news. With comp.sources.testers, a site of this type can
receive this low volume newsgroup and still be a part of the potential
beta testing community.
And as for the signal to flame ratio in alt.sources... Never mind. :-)
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Subject: Is there a list of people willing to try things out ?
The following have offered to be Beta Testers on a request by request
basis. Do not expect that they will always have the time or interest
to be a tester. Their inclusion on this list is strictly voluntary
and thecommended for their contributions.
Shyela S. Aberman
labsha@unix.cc.emory.edu
Systems: Macintosh (Quadra 800 w/ CD-ROM w/DAT drive,
Centris 650 w/ CD-ROM w/color monitor, IIsi w/color
monitor, IIfx w/two-page monitor, all w/ Ethernet and
System 7.1)
Intel '486 w/ Windows 3.1 w/ DOS 5.0, 6.0 w/ SoundBlaster
w/ CD-ROM w/ SVGA (IBM PS/ValuePoint 433DX/D)
SunOS 5.3/Solaris 2.3 (Sun SPARCserver 1000)
Darren R. Alomes
alomes@ist.flinders.edu.au
Systems: 486 DX 50 Mhz DOS 6.2 windows 3.1
Apricot 486 DX 33 Network, Novell 3.11, Windows for
Workgroups
Mac II VI, CD Rom, System 7 Pro
X system, OpenLook, Unix, Motif
Amrish Amin
a-amin@uiuc.edu
Systems: 486-DX2/66 with SVGA and a 2X CD-ROM, Windows 3.1 + DOS 6.2
Macintosh IIsi with System 7.0.1
Nathan Bailey
nbai1@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
System: 486-33, SVGA, Win3.1, MS-DOS,
Linux, X-Windows (XFree86).
(also DECstations running X as well!)
Available to test any and all types of software,
especially programming tools and games.
Scott Baily
sbaily@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
System: 486DX33 SVGA(VLB) win 3.1 msdos 6.2 8Mb RAM
Jose T Banez
jayb@w System: 386sx-16, msdos5, win3.1, vga, math coprocessor.
Kevin Boneham
boneham@suntan.eng.usf.edu
Systems: SunOs 4.1.3 with twm or olwm,
486dx-50mhz with msdos 5.0
386dx-33mhz with msdos 6.0
windows 3.1.
Mike Borzumate
faf@faf.org
Systems: 386 MS-DOS, MS-WINDOWS, ULTRIX 4.1, SunOS 4.1.1
David Boyd
Sterling Software
dwb@sterling.com
Systems: Suns, Dec Risc, Dec Alpha
Jeremy Bresley
bresley@badlands.nodak.edu
Systems: 486sx-25, 4MB RAM, Adaptec 1522 SCSI, Conner 200MB disk
and Toshiba XM-3401 CD-ROM Drive. DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1
Jon Charette
egotrip@wpi.wpi.edu
System: 386SX-20, VGA, Win3.1, MS-DOS, some UNIX
Chris Chay
mcc3m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
System: 486-50 DX, 8meg ram, Win 3.1, Dos 5.0, SB, 14.4 modem.
Mohamed Chlendi
chlendi@ensic.u-nancy.fr
Systems: PC 386/486: DOS (5 & 6.0), Windows (3.1)
UNIX: SUN SPARC, IBM RS6000, HP
Macintosh: LCII, 2CX
Christian Claiborn
claiborn@express.ctron.com
Systems: SPARCs running SunOS and Solaris, various Indigo's of
random flavors, DECstations (RISC), and IBM RS6k's.
X11R5, Motif, OpenWindows available.
Randy Cutshaw
randy@biosym.com
Systems: Mac IIvx, Quadra 660av, Quadra 840av,
Apple MPW with C++ and MacApp, Symantec Think C++.
and IBM 486/66, 16mb ram, CD drive, P9000 video card
tape drive. Visual C++.
Naciketa Datta
cs2dy@altair.herts.ac.uk
System: Amiga 1200 80 Megs Hard Drive, 6 Megs RAM, SEGA Megadrive
Atari Lynx
Jan-Claas Dirks
dirks@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
System: Amiga 4000/040, OS3.0, 10 MB, 460 MB HD,
Piccolo GfxBoard 2MB (EGS), SAS/C 6.5x
Laurent Duperval
duperval@iro.umontreal.ca
Systems: Linux box (486/33, 16 MB RAM, 1024x768 SVGA, with X and Xview
Sun machines, 4.1.x and Solaris
SGI 4D and SGI Indogos running Irix
Bob Glass
rmglass@cs.tamu.edu
Systems: 486DX-33 compatable, 8MB ram, 290MB HD, OAK (087) SVGA 1MB
MSDOS 6.2, Windows 3.1, QEMM 7.03, LANtastic AI/v5.0
386SX-16 compatable, 2MB ram, 40MB HD, Vanilla VGA 256K
OS as above..., Helpful with OS/2, DESQview/X, pcAnywhere.
Lloyd Goad
lgoad@lnetbbs.win.net
System: 486 DOS WIN3.1
Stan Golob
sgolob@fairviewc.ab.ca
Systems: 486SX/25, CD, SoundBlaster, Vis C++/Pascal
Teemu Hakala
Teemu.Hakala@krk.fi
Systems: Sun Sparc, X, 486SX, DOS/Win31
Tom Harvey
tharvey@mcs.dundee.ac.uk
System: Apple Macintosh
Calvin Hass
chass@unixg.ubc.ca
Systems: DELL Dimension XPS P60 (60 MHz Pentium) with 16 Mb RAM, GXE
#9
Video Card with 3 Mb Video RAM, DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1.
Malassic (68020) with 4 Mb RAM System 7.1
Macintosh LC III (68030) with 4 Mb RAM System 7.1
Macintosh Plus (68000) with 4 Mb RAM System 7.1
Franz Hemmer
franz@hemsoft.ping.dk
Systems: 486/DX40 VLB,4 MB RAM, 200MB HD, DOS 6.2, Windows 3.1,
24-bit Optima SVGA card, 9600 baud Nokia modem.
Steve Hoffman
steveh@eskimo.com
System: DOS, WINDOWS
Peter Kraatz
pkraatz@netlink.nix.com
System: 386sx 33mhz with SVGA, 8megs ram, MS-Dos, Windows 3.1,
Soundblaster Pro, U.S. Robotics 14.4 Sportster modem.
Peter Leonard
PELeonard@Vassar.edu
System: Amiga 3000T/30 Workbench 2.1,
Amax II+ Macintosh Emulator with System 7.01.
Karl Mitschke
karl.mitschke@tek.com
Systems: 386/40 with 20MB ram, 150MB HD, DOS 6.2/WfW3.11 and NT, cdrom
483/33 with 20MB ram, 300MB HD, running NTAS, cdrom
Terry Monnett
tmonnett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
System: Macintosh 610, system 7.1 with a cd-rom
Mathew Mornoe
mmonroe@nyx.cs.du.edu
Systems: NeXT, HP-UNIX,
486/66 8mb RAM SVGA (Genoa TurboWindows ISA 24bit color)
Nancy I Nagle
nagle@anthro.utah.edu
System: Macintosh
Nathan Neulinger
nneul@cs.umr.edu
System: Macintoshs
Christopher Pankhurst
csap@socs.uts.edu.au
System: Xwindows and IBM XT or AT
Jason Philbrook
jasonph@wpi.edu
System: DOS, WINDOWS
David Pifke
socrates@crl.com
Systems: 386DX-40 (w/ 387) with Linux, OS/2 2.1, and MSDOS (with
Windows 3.1) partitions. Non-root access to a SunOS system.
Ben Pomeranz
bap5@lehigh.edu
System: 386DX 33MHz, MSDOS, Sound Blaster
Chris Pope
pope@neosoft.com
System: 386SX 20mhz, 8 megs RAM, 500 megs HD, Sound Blaster clone
Christopher Samuel
chris@rivers.dra.hmg.gb
Systems: Unix
Joju Sebastian
Joju.Sebastian@lambada.oit.unc.edu
System: DOS
Robert Smithson.
RCS1000@archer.demon.co.uk
Systems: OS/2 ver 2, Windows 3, MS-DOS
Olga V. Tarkaeva
olga@oit.cgu.chel.su
System: 286-16MHz, Math-coprocessor, Sound Blaster, 8-bit Arcnet
Alex Teng
idpt555@tpts1.seed.net.tw
tem: DOS, WINDOWS, NOVELL, UNIX, NT
Jerry D. Vergeront
verge@selway.umt.edu
System: 386sx-25, msdos5, win3.1, vga, sound blaster
Kent Villard
villard@venus.cc.hollandc.pe.ca
System: 100% IBM compatible with DOS/WINDOWS
Steven Webb
webbs@mozart.cs.colostate.edu
System: 486DX50 with an orchid 1280+ videocard.
Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250 tape drive,
Windows 3.1 Desqview/X 1.0 Sound Blaster
Linux, OS/2.
Dan Weeks
z_weeksdj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
System: 386SX-25MHz, Math-coprocessor, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, Visual
C++
David Zawalick
zawalick@soda.berkeley.edu
Systems: DOS, Windows, OS/2, X, UNIX
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Subject: How do I get added or deleted from the list of testers ?
Send email to:
testers@sterling.com
Make sure that you clearly indicate you want to be included or removed
from the list. Please include the types of platforms that you have
available for testing. I will from time to time contact you to assure
that you still wish to be included on the list.
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Subject: Where do I test my news software at ?
Please do *not* post test messages to comp.sources.testers !
If you wish to test your news software, create a local group and try
using that first. When that works, locate a regional group to test
posting articles to the world. Ask your upstream feed for the name
of a regional newsgroup nearest you. If you really feel that you
must post a test message that needs to go to most every news system
worldwide, use misc.test, or news.test. Just remember, messages
posted to the world costs oey.
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