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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!dent
- From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
- Subject: Re: Autodoubler & other transparent compression progs
- Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 00:21:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov08.002125.16683@DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <0105010A.hr7721@salient.com>
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- In <0105010A.hr7721@salient.com> HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software) writes:
- >I agree. In retrospect, AutoDoubler 1.0 could have benefited from
- >another month of beta testing. But at the time, the bug reports from
- >our 100+ beta testers had stopped coming in. So we decided to ship
- >in January.
-
- >Although most of the 'bugs' were really INIT conflicts, that's no
- >excuse for not finding them before shipping. I think the real problem
- >is that there are just too many INITs to adequately cover with a few
- >hundred beta testers.
-
- >What's the solution? I honestly don't know.
- How about something like a bunch of Macs running Frontier scripts to generate
- test combinations of inits (just drag EVERYHING off info-mac). You could leave
- it going for a week or two and probably encounter more weird combos this way.
-
- Andy Dent (A.D. Software - Mac & VAX programming)
- 94 Bermuda Dve, BALLAJURA Western Australia 6066
- Phone/Fax: 09 249 2719 (local) +619 249 2719 (International)
- Internet: dent@DIALix.oz.au Compuserve: 100033,3241
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