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We've all seen the various stages of development for a product... alpha, beta, release candidate, release to manufacturer. I'm looking for something that does a good job of explaining EXACTLY what each stage involves. So many times you see people just talk about their software listed as Beta and RTM.
My team is working on a new project and our customer has requested we use this staged development. Anyone have a good reference out there?
-AC
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1. Alpha "Gosh, something is working, sell it fast!"
2. Beta "Hey, someone found bugs!"
3. Release Candidate "Look at these bugs! Let's fire this stupid programmer!"
4. Ready To Market "Hey, we fired the programmer, we can't fix any bugs!"
Q261186 - Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
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"alpha" and "beta" have been so overused that they have lost their meaning. "alpha" is rarely heard anymore. "beta" can mean anything from "don't sneeze or it'll crash" to "almost done, just a few things left to do." So these days anything pre-release is called "beta".
RC = release candidate
RTM = release to manufacturing
--Mike--
"I'd rather you just give me a fish today, because even if you teach me how to fish, I won't do it. I'm lazy." -- Nish
Just released - 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I'm using the following, but I'm not quite sure it's a standard:
Alpha: early version, not all functionality, quite unstable
Beta: all functionality (or mostly), still not very stable
RC: in the transition cycle, when the feature set is frozen, stable but still minor bugs
RTM: transition closed, the version is really stable, all documents are up-to-date, support is transfered to 1st line
Hope it helps
Eric
soon not anymore in China PRC
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I use the following:
Alpha - Release to other developers, usually with full source and run in "debug" mode.
Beta - Release to other developers and a select few who are possible stake-holders in the release (i.e. people who need the new functionality asap, bugs and all) for testing and quasi-production. Note, the build is likely still debug, but the application stands on its own.
Release Candidate - When the product has all* bugs worked out, and an installation program has been built for the release, I will distribute the product to those users within my personal knowledge who really want it. The application is "release" build now, with optimizations and no debug info.
Final Release - That's it. After any last-minuite updates, a new Install is built, and release is available for anyone who wants it.
*as far as we can tell...
- Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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Hi,
I just finished writing my first project in C# and I was thinking of releasing it somewhere as freeware. It works on my XP Pro computer but I haven't tried it anywhere else. Would anybody like to try it out for so I can figure out if it works on other OS's? E-mail me if you want to try it and I'll send it to you (about 18 Kb).
Cheers
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Hi,
I am using Mapi session logon method to logon to exchange and sc server.I have to select a profile with which i logon to servers.For this there is a dialog box.On ok click of this box two more boxes appear asking inputs for SC and exchange.
How can i avoid these 3 boxes and still be able to communicate to both the servers and retrieve there infostores.
Thanks in advance,
Amit Gupta
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I am currently developing an MFC plug-in architecture that will allow you to create plug-in DLLs for an application. When I get the initial release working for all window messages (currently only works on WM_COMMAND stuff), I would like to spread it out to a few beta testers who can try and hammer it a bit more than I may have the time to myself.
So, if you would like an early copy of the source and to get mentioned in the article when its complete (possibly as a co-author depending on the level of contribution), then leave a message and email address here (or mail me direct) and when beta 1 is ready I will send it out with some early docs on how to use it.
If possible I would like to post your application and its plug-in(s) source as examples on the article as well. The more examples the better.
UPDATE
The library is now working for all windows messages and command messages for a view and all command messages for a document. I will be extending the library to support all view types and document/mainframes etc over the next few days, at which point it should be ready for beta.
Anyone interested?
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
I think I need a new quote, I am on the prowl, so look out for a soft cute furry looking animal, which is really a Hippo in disguise. Its probably me.
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I'll be very interested. In fact, I am trying to develop such a thing myself, but haven't figured out all the details yet. It'll be interesting to see how you do it.
Although I cannot promise I'll necessarily be able to come up with an example app very soon. It is because of so many other things that are keeping me busy. I hope that's OK with you. But I'll definitely try to give you my inputs as far as your main thing, ie the plugin framework itself, is concerned, because that is what I am really interested in.
Any chance of accompanying docs too?
Regards,
Rohit Sinha
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Rohit Sinha wrote:
Although I cannot promise I'll necessarily be able to come up with an example app very soon. It is because of so many other things that are keeping me busy
That sounds cool. What I really need is people to test the code in earnest and point out problems/flaws.
Examples are a bonus, but I have a few planned.
Rohit Sinha wrote:
Any chance of accompanying docs too?
All the docs for the library are currently in the form of preliminary article text, so if you can work from that then it should be OK.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
I think I need a new quote, I am on the prowl, so look out for a soft cute furry looking animal, which is really a Hippo in disguise. Its probably me.
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Hey,
I am beta tester for other companies as well. It is very good to test such an application.
Lets hope I'll come with up with the article and example as well.
BR 
Dammy More
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Howdy Y'all,
In order to learn more about Perl DBI, I wrote a guestbook that uses MySQL rather than a flat file to store the data.
Will you kind folks do you best to break it, and if you do, tell me how?
http://www.sagara.org/perlgb/guestbook.cgi[^]
Thanks!
Jon Sagara
Damnit Jim!
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Cute.
Now, you'll just need to replace your 'x' key!
Marc
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Looks like it is working pretty good Jon
Nick Parker
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. - Unknown
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Jon Sagara wrote:
Will you kind folks do you best to break it, and if you do, tell me how?
It looks good. I'll try and break it later.. I'm good at breaking things.
Regards,
Brian Dela
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My host moved my site to another machine last night. I guess they took a snapshot of it before I had finished developing the guestbook. If you've been getting a page with just my name on it, that's why. It should be fixed now.
Jon Sagara
Damnit Jim!
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Two suggestions:
1. I was able to enter "garbage" characters in the name fields. It might be possible to enter sequences that cause application or database problems. You may want to filter fields for legitimate entries only (and no profanity).
2. It would be nice if guest email addresses were blind. Otherwise spammers can get them.
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Your guestbook looks really nice - good work!
Tried a few things, but could not find anything really harmful (on the server side). Seems like you could put html commands in the URL field, however..
Cheers
/moliate
The corners of my eyes catch hasty, bloodless motion -
a mouse?
Well, certainly a peripheral of some kind.
Neil Gaiman - Cold Colours
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moliate wrote:
Seems like you could put html commands in the URL field, however..
Yes, bizarre. Thanks for pointing that out.
moliate wrote:
Your guestbook looks really nice - good work!
Thanks!
Jon Sagara
If you think of wheat fields as questionable metaphors, you can think of me as the state of Kansas.
-- Mike Blaszczak
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Testing
Jon Sagara
When I want something, I just go out and buy it. That makes me a go-getter.
-- My sister
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fasd
Jon Sagara
When I want something, I just go out and buy it. That makes me a go-getter.
-- My sister
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I'm releasing a new product, 1ClickPicGrabber, in a few days, and would like some input (and testing of course!) from my fellow CPians. Grab the pre-release installer here[^]. (Product page here[^])
Purpose of the product:
1ClickPicGrabber installs a toolbar extension in IE. The toolbar has a Grab button, which when clicked, collects the URLs of all pictures on the page, all links to pictures, or links to movies, and sends them to the background downloader app. The downloader then downloads and organizes the grabbed files for you in your My Documents dir.
This is far and away better than existing grabbers. Most of them are standalone apps, which require you to copy & paste pages or URLs into them. With 1ClickPicGrabber, it's right there in IE and one click on the Grab button gets you started.
Requirements:
OS: 98, 98SE, Me, NT 4, 2000, XP
IE: 5.01+ and the Active Desktop shell (most features should work OK without the AD shell on NT 4, but this is not guaranteed or supported)
Incentive to help us out:
Free license for the best bug report. The demo linked above is a fully functioning version, but is limited to downloading 200 files, and will deactivate after that.
Please send bug reports to mdunn [at] zabersoft {dot} com.
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.4 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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WOW, just what I have been looking for to download some pr0n  Will the downloader successfully download from all websites even if the pictures are linked via asp, eg www.web.com/getpic.asp?mypic.jpg ?
No, seriously I have had a need for this, although IE 6's save picture as... button is better than having to right click all the time.
When do u need a bugreport by?
Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens!
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leppie wrote:
just what I have been looking for to download some pr0n
If this is your choice, it will be fully supported. 
leppie wrote:
even if the pictures are linked via asp,
The Grabber will not see those pictures, because it looks at extensions and .asp is not a picture file extension. However, if you click Grab->Grab a file from any URL, you can enter the complete URL and a filename to save the file as locally.
The only bug I'm aware of in downloading is that the background downlaoder doesn't send a HTTP_REFERER header, so sites that check the referrer will not serve the file. This is on the list of stuff to fix.
Bug reports by Sunday night (PDT, GMT -8) would be great.
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.4 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Perhaps your downloader should attempt to download the content from .asp extensions also and only keep items that have the proper mime type. Can you analyze the content headers?
The other option is to parse the html and find the img tags?
Todd Smith
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