Re: ANN: Automated Build Studio Released

From: Boian Mitov (mitov_at_mitov.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:34:49 -0700

       Hi Vincent,

   I was not able to use the product as it is. It is crashing a lot and
I was not able to finish working on a single setup task without at least
4-5 crashes. I did try 3 different releases with the same experience,
and I am too tired to try again :-( . I am back to bat files. The
version changes are not very easy to implement, and as they are a major
part of a build, writing and managing the scripts for the task was a
major headache. I am able to get this done much easier with the bat
files. For me the biggest stop was the large amount of application
crashes. I mean I was getting 2-3 every five minutes or so :-( , I was
not able to complete and save even the changes I was doing to the
project so most of my work was lost. Finally I gave up :-( , I am
however looking for a better solution than the BAT files, and I am
exited about the AQA product. I have also tested 2 more releases of your
product, with the hope they are better. I was disappointed :-( . I am
working now again on a project for Innovative Integration. They are
having the same bad experience, and they are using in-house builder.
They have a valid FB license but ware not able to get anything useful
out of the tool, so they are back to in-house solutions :-( .
   With best regards,
       Boian Mitov

Vincent Parrett (Atozed Software) wrote:

>
> I wasn't going to post on this thread since it's about competing product,
> but I couldn't let such sweeping statements go unanswered. I just checked my
> email archive, I have one bug report from you which was addressed several
> months ago (back in March, attempting to load a project from an unsupported
> version of BCB resulted in an exception). Unlike some vendors, when a bug
> is reported we either provide a work around or a fix, we don't wait months
> or years to release an update.
>
> As for ease of use, I don't seee any suggestions from you other than to
> improve the documentation (something that has been improved since the
> version you posted the bugreport about).
>