Re: [Nautilus-list] High level outline of planned client testing. Tellus what's missing,please. ;)

[Seth Nickell <seth eazel com>]

Ali Abdin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > I think its important to add "extended use without restarting as a
> > desktop" or something like that. I suspect we have many nautilus
> > problems that we do not encounter because most of us do not run nautilus
> > continually as our desktop (e.g. we constantly restart to debug etc). I
> > know of at least one thing that would probably cause issues if a desktop
> > were used for a day or so, but was discovered through unrelated means
> > :-) I bet there are others...
> 
> Isn't this called DogFood testing?
> 
> I think that all developers should use Nautilus as their 'desktop'
> (instead of GMC) after they hit the 'bug-fixing' stage.

The problem is that this is a sort of dogfood developers don't run into.
I use Nautilus as my main Desktop, but I restart it so constantly in the
necessary course of my work (for example to test what I just wrote) that
I don't end up testing it for sufficient lengths of time to find
pernicious "extended open" bugs.

-Seth