[Scummvm-devel] Bring testers to the team?
Pierre-Yves GĂ©rardy
pygy79 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 17:04:36 CEST 2009
2009/7/23 Max Horn <max at quendi.de>
>
> Since we cannot solve this the bruteforce way (lack of resources), we need
> to be clever about it. To me that means selecting good combinations of games
> & platforms and getting these tested, to maximize our coverage. By testing a
> well-chosen sample of all game&platform combinations, we should be able to
> catch a majority of issue in advance. Hopefully more than currently. Of
> course, this would still be a big task; and we still would greatly benefit
> from being assisted by automated playtesting.
>
It could be a good idea to set up a list of who owns which game and which
device, beginning with the coders and forums old timers who also perform the
testing. It would allow to balance the games tested and the testing load.
* Focus on primary variants of games first. Yes, we also want the uber-rare
> special versions so loved by geeks to also work; but first we should make
> sure the versions most people have and play work fine
That list should be determined. In the short term, it could be done
arbitrarilly, but it would be nice to have a permanent poll running on the
site. I think that a 1 item ajax poll on the homepage (Do you Play X with
ScummVM) with just a "Yes" button (and if they play it, display a list of
the different versions with a graphics sample the help them sorting things
out?) would be the most effective way to get information. The shorter the
poll, the most likely it will be completed.
I'll be on holidays for the next three weeks, I may have some time to look
at the backend code for such a poll system (I have some ideas on how to
prevent abuse), but I'd appreciate some help on the html/css/javascript side
(I could do it, but it will be tedious).
* Test at least one game on each *port*
And try to at least *boot* each engine on each port, ideally with the most
demanding game (known to run on it)?
Cheers,
Pierre-Yves
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.scummvm.org/pipermail/scummvm-devel/attachments/20090725/0fc56e79/attachment.html>
More information about the Scummvm-devel
mailing list