{"id":39,"date":"2010-01-06T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2010-01-06T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T13:34:31","slug":"beta-testing-with-macdeveloper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Beta Testing with MacDeveloper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re well into the first testing cycle for Proview now. We&#8217;re using <a href=\"http:\/\/macdeveloper.net\/ \">MacDeveloper<\/a>, which automates the process somewhat, and has a group of about 8000 people signed up for testing, giving them discounts or free copies of the software when they&#8217;ve submitted enough acceptable bug reports to the ticketing system.<\/p>\n<p>MacDeveloper runs with its own ticketing system, but the data can be exported to CSV. Haven&#8217;t worked out how to get it into bugzilla yet, though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with how few crash\/freeze bugs have been reported, and the complaints about the interface seem to crystallize around a couple of issues &#8211; so we&#8217;ll re-jig it before the next release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/BetaTest.html \">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centercode.com\/blogs\/betaguru\/2009\/10\/why-didnt-you-beta-test\/ \">here<\/a> are a couple of articles on contemporary beta testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re well into the first testing cycle for Proview now. We&#8217;re using MacDeveloper, which automates the process somewhat, and has a group of about 8000 people signed up for testing, giving them discounts or free copies of the software when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/?p=39\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beta","tag-proview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherentpdf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}