Steve R Jones
October 1st, 2005, 10:00 PM
If you’re testing Vista, please use the link in SuperSparks thread Entitled Reporting Bugs (http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?t=192413)
I just finished four days of meetings at the annual MVP summit in Redmond and learned just how important bug reporting is to MS. Even if you think something is very obvious and that everyone will see it – report it anyway. The number of reports helps determine how much priority they give an issue.
This is pretty interesting. They have a “results” classification for bug reports called “by design.” By design might be the case, but if a couple hundred people think it’s a bug and report it, they’ll take another look at it….
Another interesting thing I learned is that most MS employees have a stress test machine. Each employee fires up their machine in the evenings and a group of guys control them to run tests overnight. One pc can be programmed to install/uninstall a printer 500,000 times in one night. They look for memory leaks and such. If and when the machine can pass that large number of tests, they assume most users won’t have a problem…
I just finished four days of meetings at the annual MVP summit in Redmond and learned just how important bug reporting is to MS. Even if you think something is very obvious and that everyone will see it – report it anyway. The number of reports helps determine how much priority they give an issue.
This is pretty interesting. They have a “results” classification for bug reports called “by design.” By design might be the case, but if a couple hundred people think it’s a bug and report it, they’ll take another look at it….
Another interesting thing I learned is that most MS employees have a stress test machine. Each employee fires up their machine in the evenings and a group of guys control them to run tests overnight. One pc can be programmed to install/uninstall a printer 500,000 times in one night. They look for memory leaks and such. If and when the machine can pass that large number of tests, they assume most users won’t have a problem…