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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Takeover Example
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <ksand-271292161117@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:16:08 GMT
- References: <725492228.1473624@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Organization: (Evil Eye Creature from Mars, Inc.)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Lines: 43
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- In article <725492228.1473624@AppleLink.Apple.COM>, RSD@AppleLink.Apple.COM
- (Research SW Design, D Goldman,PRT) wrote:
- > Regarding my accompanying link ("TEditText Bug")...
- >
- > I would speculate that this is a bug whose fix will:
- >
- > (a) involve a very slight change to the MacApp code;
- > (b) easily be seen to not have distant side-effects;
- > (c) at best show up in an Apple bug doc, and that only if we're unexpectedly
- > lucky (Kent says he's being transfered to another engineering department!);
- > (d) belong in MacApp 3.0.2 (which there is no indication we will ever see Apple
- > create or distribute).
- >
- > If Apple supported MacApp 3.0, then this is what would happen now:
- > (1) Apple confirms and repairs this very small and easy bug.
- > (2) The fix is made to MacApp 3.0.2, which is distributed on ETO #10.
- >
- > Since Apple no longer supports MacApp 3.0 [Go ahead: prove me wrong! Follow
- > the above 2 steps.], let us suppose that MADA buys it. Then here is the
- > scenario:
-
- I just want to raise one issue, Q&A of a product is a very expensive
- phase, and in the case of MacApp we are even dealing with a multitude
- of testing cases. In other words one engineer for testing/maintenance
- is maybe OK, maybe not (I'm skeptical but I might be wrong, if you find
- someone willing to hack 20 hours a day :-) ).
-
- I've seen this problem over here in DTS, where we have people, resources,
- even a lot of equipment. The problem we have is time, it takes a lot of
- time
- and energy to test out bug fixes, and we don't have the infrastructure
- concerning a full SQA process, something that needs to be in place day
- one concerning bug fix releases. In addition, you have to be very, very
- sure that bug fixes are properly working, because developers don't like
- sudden updates to bug fixes (yes we know, we sometimes have the same
- QA problem over here).
-
- Cheers,
- Kent
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