Comments on: Lessons learnt from beta testing

By: phil

phil — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:59:06 +0000

@David Goodwin: You weren’t alone - and it isn’t your fault :) I was very over optimistic about how much people could get done in a small time frame.

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:47:16 +0000

Hi,

I was one of those Beta testers who didn’t do anything. Finally, I had a spare 5 minutes and thought I’d go and investigate it - but I had difficulty remembering the URL, didn’t have the “welcome” email any longer (obviously my fault)…

Oh well.

David.

By: phil

phil — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:39 +0000

@Matthew: I think you’re right. I did think (rather naively) that people would go out of their way to test this thing to the max but, in reality that’s never going to happen and it’s not the testers’ fault but mine.

By: Matthew Pennell

Matthew Pennell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:00:49 +0000

I think to be fair that you can’t really expect people to make particularly heavy use of an invoicing/accounting application within the space of one week. I use Blinksale, and the maximum number of invoices I’ve ever sent in a single week is two.

By: James

James — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:34:09 +0000

Phil, I would be interested in Beta testing your bean counting app as I may be interested in using it.

Cheers dude

James