Re: Delphi 2007 (HighLander) - Public Beta?

Wayne Niddery [TeamB] wrote:
Dave Moore wrote:
Works-in-progress implies missing or incomplete functionality, i.e.
alpha versions, whereas beta testing implies a "final-testing,
smoothing out the rough edges" version is used. Both would involve
bug-fixing. What, otherwise, is the point of testing?

That is completely wrong.

No at least not generally.

I would tend to agree with Dave. Beta versions come commonly, better said should come along with a feature freeze.

> Alpha-quality is generally not even released to
beta testers, it is still in-house at that point. Once the product gets enough features intially done that it *can* actually be tested for bugs, that is when beta-testing *starts*. During that cycle, other new features are introduced that also require testing to identify bugs to be fixed.

Does is make that much sense to change the code, which may introduce new bugs or hide existing bugs in the current betas ? When does the introduction of new features stop ? If you continue to introduce new features then you never will reach the release candidate stage.

What you are describing is not beta leve, but *release candidate* level.

I tend to disagree. IMHO the definition of a release candidate is that the version has been beta tested and all known bugs are fixed.

Also I think introducing new features in the beta phase leads to much more banana software. (Software that "ripes" on the clients computer).


Andre



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