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3 total messages Started by Jasen M. Fici Sun, 31 Jul 1994 23:23

#93

Author: Jasen M. Fici
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 23:23

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Greetings!

	I am doing some research on software development.  More precisely,
beta-testings.  What I have had a hard time coming up with are some
statistical data.  I am looking for:

	* An average time (length and frame) that beta-testing takes
	  as compared to the software project.

	* An average number of testers that are used within the industry
	  per product.

	* How much of a software development project's budget is actually
	  allocated to beta-testings.

	* What kind of man-power (company personnel) are usually needed to
	  effectively run a beta testing phase of the project.

	If anyone has any raw data, or can share numbers that they have
personally seen used within a company I would love to hear them.  I will
be glad to post my findings once I have accumulated enough information.

Thank you.

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take care,
Jasen

Re: Beta testing stats

#94

Author: George Kambic
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1994 12:37

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In article <1994Jul31.232318.21012@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujmf4@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jasen M. Fici) writes:
|> Greetings! 
|> 	I am doing some research on software development.  More precisely,
|> beta-testings.  What I have had a hard time coming up with are some
|> statistical data.  I am looking for:
|> 	* An average time (length and frame) that beta-testing takes
|> 	  as compared to the software project.
|> 	* An average number of testers that are used within the industry
|> 	  per product.
|> 	* How much of a software development project's budget is actually
|> 	  allocated to beta-testings.
|> 	* What kind of man-power (company personnel) are usually needed to
|> 	  effectively run a beta testing phase of the project.
|> 	If anyone has any raw data, or can share numbers that they have
|> personally seen used within a company I would love to hear them.  I will
|> be glad to post my findings once I have accumulated enough information.


If I may make a prediction, you will find many requests to share the data, 
but not a lot of sources.  The data I suspect are not collected in the detail 
that you want.  Secondly, I suspect that you might want to spend some time 
improving your questions.  For example, are these questions intended to 
cover all possible projects, from one person projects to multi-person, multi 
year projects?

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Re: Beta testing stats

#95

Author: Jasen M. Fici
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 01:46

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George Kambic (gxkambic@csslc10.cs.hh.ab.com) wrote:

: If I may make a prediction, you will find many requests to share the data, 
: but not a lot of sources.  The data I suspect are not collected in the detail 
: that you want.  Secondly, I suspect that you might want to spend some time 
: improving your questions.  For example, are these questions intended to 
: cover all possible projects, from one person projects to multi-person, multi 
: year projects?

First, thanks for your suggestions.  I left the questions (in terms of size)
generalized because I am looking for quite a range of information, from small
one man projects, all the way to Fortune 500 software companies (if possible).
I agree that this information will be hard to come by, but hopefully I will
get a reasonable amount of data.


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