> To do this kind of testing in-house before they release to us, would dramatically 
>slow the 
> pace of development and increase the "feedback" loop between users and developers.  
>I 
> much prefer the occasional annoyance of having to back up to a previous EAP to the 
>long 
> development cycle of a more traditional development model.

I agree with the slowdown.
But IntelliJ (oh, I meant JetBrains) would get a better feedback, if
they would release the eap builds more often like in the good old days
one year ago.

Tom


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:10:07 -0400, "Michael Kirby"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 24 Jul 2002 at 13:21, Muthu Ramadoss wrote:
> 
> > thats exactly what happened.. worse you cant get rid of that window..
> > its in somekind of a hellish loop.
> > 
> > i wonder what kind of QA is done on eap versions...
> 
> We are the QA...Suck it up.. :-)
> 
> Seriously though.  I imagine they have an extensive set of automated tests, as well 
>as using 
> the release themselves, but since there are so many ways to use this software, and 
> environments play such a large role, without wide-spread testing there is no reason 
>to 
> guarantee that these early versions will be usable for a specific set of tasks that 
>any one user 
> might have.
> 
> To do this kind of testing in-house before they release to us, would dramatically 
>slow the 
> pace of development and increase the "feedback" loop between users and developers.  
>I 
> much prefer the occasional annoyance of having to back up to a previous EAP to the 
>long 
> development cycle of a more traditional development model.
> 
> Mike
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