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• Beta tests and beta-tester... •
¤ To limit the number of the "infamous small creatures" which infest our dear softwares, everybody knows that the Authors make some tests before to release a new program.
¤ But, to do that, they request the good unpaid services of some bold users named: "Beta-testers".
The beta-tester MUST:
if you have something to test, you may send me a request!
¤ But, to do that, they request the good unpaid services of some bold users named: "Beta-testers".
The beta-tester MUST:
- Have the worst PC as possible, and the oldest OS with which, however, the tested software might work ( that's easy...).
- Have a long good nose to sniff the cute bugs, hidden in the one function NOT tested by the Author...
- Translate from the average user's usual language into an almost jargon of programmers...
- Suffer multiple crashes and restarts keeping an olympian calm...
- Be an expert about spelling, and have NONE heart trouble...
- Kindly suggest: "Maybe could you..." and "It seems that..." are his (her) favourite sentences in the tests reports.
- Try to connect his (her) various Authors together for a fruitful collaboration (that's difficult!); that'ld be often useful...
- Sometimes, wait for a fortnight, having nothing to do...
Then, receive three programs to test at the same time. - If possible, also write /update/ or improve the "Help" files, when he (she) has digested the software alright...
- In the previous case, be happy to receive a dozen of congratulations and thanks mails, while tens thousands Help files have been downloaded from his (her) Web site (O! Bitter human ingratitude!).
- NOT howl, when he (she) discovers that a bug fixing caused three new worse ones!
- Stay optimistic, to belive still that the WEB is the world of the exemption of payement, freedom and solidarity...
- ... have none important other thing to do, the first essential quality for a beta-tester!
if you have something to test, you may send me a request!
