[bt-devel] Bug-a-thon

[Thomas Abthorpe]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:31:31 +0200 (EET)
Eeli Kaikkonen <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

> A feature-a-thon is a good idea. But what is needed more is a
> test-a-thon. I have repeated this ad nauseam but we really, really need
> better testing. We have had some major changes (e.g. bookshelf manager
> long time ago; WebKit and javascript; model/view bookshelf). They all
> have showed bugs, even serious ones, after long time. If developers
> would have been more careful and really tested all features there
> wouldn't be so many bugs.

I most definitely agree that a Test-a-thon should be scheduled, what we can
try do is spread our net farther and extend an invite to my client base to
participate.

> 
> But I know how difficult it is to have the right attitude for testing,
> and it's common knowledge that a developer is not a good tester for his
> own code. Therefore I suggest that we have a test-a-thon where we would
> assing areas and each tester would test all features and workflows of
> his own area. We could share experiences and confirm issues on different
> platforms in real time. Another possibility could be to take one
> area/feature at a time and test it together. At the same time we could
> discuss about usability issues.
> 
> I guess the result would be depressing and we should definitely have a
> new bug-a-thon afterwards :)

Touche!

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