>>>>I'm trying to rein-in my coworkers from building and releasing our production EXE's without doing full regression testing first. They do a build then when they try a couple things and it doesn't bomb, they think we are good to go. I come from a different school. Any thoughts on this? Oh, I have seen one error about VFP9 thinking that a file that is not opened exclusively needs to be, but they think that may just be an environmental setting, but maybe I'll save that for another thread.
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>>>We don't really have the tools to test the UI's completely. What I find helps is to do unit testing as Craig B. said. Of course, if you're not making discrete modules, unit testing is harder.
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>>>I also have a person take the production exe, install and run it on a clean machine, install and run it on a machine simulating an upgrade and finally only that person can say if it's good to go to customers.
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>>>My wife and I do this for my customers. It reduces the number of times I get a call from customers that it didn't install and/or didn't work. The only drawback is my wife gets to see my errors. ;)
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>>"The only drawback is my wife gets to see my errors."
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>>Yes, but you tell her you just put those in there so she'd have something to do. <g>
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>LOL. I just saw this reply. It's quicker to just say "Yes, Dear" after she reports the bug. :)

Well, whatever it takes to maintain the harmonious balance of the household (and your health). <g>