So what is an Alpha Version?

Many software products I’ve used in the last years comes with these strange titles like Alpha/Beta/Release Candidate (RC)… But never once have I seen any definition of what those terms means. What’s the real difference between an RC and a final release? what should I expect of a beta version? should I even try to use an alpha version? When coming to release Rapid-Dev we knew that its is not fully ready, so we needed to do some thinking on the exact term to use. On one side the product is clearly not complete (check here for details). But is in in Alpha stage or beta stage? How can I tell the difference? Should we wait and make it more stable or are we waiting too much risking investing time and money in the wrong directions? For me the most important things is that the product will deliver...

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Rapid-Dev - A Continuous Testing Add-in for VS2008

Over the last year I have been working on an Visual studio Add-in with the goal of minimizing the waiting time of developers for test execution. I'm happy to say that the Add-in has reached the state in which we would like to share it with other people and get feedback on how they find it. to get more information about you can either go to: The product web site Or the product Blog The site has a short demo of how the add-in fits into the VS development environment (and of course a download link), while the blog will be used to share the story of the product developme...

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Posted in: Rapid-Dev

How not to Organize an Event

I've been running this blog for 2 years now and so far I have kept my ranting to a bear minimum. Today I'll make an exception (hopefully the last one). I got a distributing call a couple of days ago, telling me that unfortunately there are no more places at the Haifa Agile Tour event and "were sorry but please don't come". In itself not a big deal, I've missed more than one event dues to space limitations. Getting this calls just TWO days before the event (which I registered a few months ago) AFTER I got a a confirmation email saying "please come and here is where you park" is a just plain wrong. When you organize an event its ok to: Limit the amount of people that can register Its also ok to register everyone and later on confirming only part. It's even ok to delay the even...

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Posted in: Events,rant