[20726] in APO-L
Re: suggestion concerning web site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Mon Jul 19 08:05:04 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:51:07 +0100
Reply-To: John Grossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
From: John Grossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <379132AD.7A2C@hawkpci.net>
> If I may make a suggestion. Having develop many systems in my work, I
> know the development phase is always the hardest. Trying to see what
> will work and what users want to see.
this is why, you employ people like me, Software QA professionals. We go
through do a thorough unit and integration test, and then a system test
to find your bugs and usability issues BEFORE your users do. Sounds to me
like WOW spun a web page, and didn't do any User Acceptance Testing before
they stuck it out to meet a June 30th deadline. (never mind QA or they would
have found the JDK 1.1.7 issues)
> The Web development team has put in a great deal of effort towards this
> site and you the users must tell them what you want and what you want to
> see in your site. They need details. They need to know not only the
> areas you do not like but also the areas you do.
First they need to announce it and tell us who to talk to... right now we
are in the grey area of speculation... with conspiracy theorists running
around pointing fingers at each other... Ellen's right, we do need to chill
as it's going to take a while for the board gears to spin into action,
evaluate, formulate, and put out a response.
-John
Software QA Engineer
GTE Internetworking
Burlington, Massachusetts
