CompuServe Messages

Wayne: And both types of beta testers are needed for any given product! Right now I'm beta testing a few products for a few different folks. Some of the applications I have an interest in, and the products will directly effect me, and the way I do things. Some others I don't know much about, don't really care to know much about, and so the programs are purely a curiousity for me. In the products that I'm interested in I do tend to put more feedback into, heck for one such product I've spent many many hours in COnferences here on CIS discussing the program, what it does, what it should do, additions to the product, design features of it, etc. On one of the products that I don't really know much about, I can give lots of feedback about how the program behaves on my machine "I loaded file X and did operation Y, and Z happened" tell the developer if any crashed occurred, etc. Plus I can do something that a beta tester who is familiar with the application would never do, the sort of things that anyone who knows what they're doing knows you can't do, so doesn't try to do. I might do those things, so I can tell the programmer if doing that crashed my machine or not, etc. Both serve a purpose. Although it is much more fun beta testing a product that I know I'll use! 🙂 // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale