More experiences on software testing
As I wrote in my last post, I have been studying and performing software testing lately. Gladly I have been fortunate to be chosen into the NetBeans IDE Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT) as now I can closely study how a bigger software product suite is tested and stabilized by very professionals from early beta to the final customer release.
The testing has already started even though beta isn’t even released. Currently reported issues are based on the daily and Q builds. Testing will gain it’s full speed early next week when the first beta is released. I’ll write a blog entry or two on the NetCAT experiences later.
As a side note regarding the testing methods: Nokia’s open source project team (Maemo) seems to be using interesting stabilizing event where all developers are gathered to sit at the same table before the software’s release date. I believe that this kind of an collaborative event will be quite efficient when the goal is to hunt the final bugs and issues.