[odf-discuss] Three kinds of tests
Bart Hanssens
bart.hanssens at skynet.be
Tue May 6 19:03:37 EDT 2008
robert_weir at us.ibm.com wrote:
> I don't think the other two types of tests really find the complex
> cases. Customers certainly do. So you need to test like customers use
> the product, which means doing dumb things as well.
+1
End-users will (ab)use your software beyond your wildest dreams (not
using styles, entering newlines instead of page breaks, using a word
processor as a photo album, playing lottery games in spreadsheets etc)
And in the end, this is *the* most important test for end-users
(for example, Amaya is probably the most conforming web browser, but
no-one is using it...)
Bart
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