SP testing

Yeah, consistently using subscription users for beta testing.

SW Corp is making a hell of a lot of money so why should they change the way they do things?? Changing would mean a lo$$,.. and they would have to explain that to the share holders.

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Phil Evans wrote:

My point mainly Paul, is that I thought the new procedure was implemented to iron out all the problems prior to official release, but not so.

I hear what you're saying, but yeah, it does not seem to be happening.

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Phil Evans wrote:

cuz they haven't selected the right ones or they have fixed date for release and the code is getting too complex.

all of those reas> I am confused, Solidworks has selected people to do advanced testing on the

Beacause SolidWorks is an international product with almost 300.000 users. Think of all the localized operating systems, drivers, hardware and so on..

// Mat

The OS already has internationalization support. SW shouldn't need to do much more than have someone translate a text file from one language to another.

Jim S.

Solidworks could (and should) do in-depth testing and development for one or two specific platforms, with very detailed specs. This way you could buy a system and KNOW it would work well.

But, if the software itself is to blame, this approach wouldn't work, and would eliminate a useful excuse for the software vendor.

I'm trying hard to convert our company's CAD work away from Autodesk. I've run into plenty of problems which create bad data not cause by the user. My biggest consern has been the realization that I might be better off with "the devil you know".

Joe Dunfee

I happen to know that SolidWorks DOES do what they consider to be in-depth specific testing with somewhere around 50 systems, and they do update their systems to include late-version hardware. That, IMHO, is not the problem. What the problem actually is MAY be a matter of disagreement even within the corporation (I don't know). But I do know that QA is the key, and QA is apparently not working the way they think it should be working, or the way they think it actually IS working.

'Sporky'

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