Noreen, with fourteen years experience in the customer support representative areas of quality assurance, is in the process of taking over the current procedures for quality assurance from Tina Kay.

To Switch To Executable Based QA

She and Tina will be separating the approximately 250 different quality assurance test check list items into groups to determine which executables are affected by which test check list item.

Currently the quality assurance process is run as an entire process on a given release. This takes at least two days. The hope is that when all tests affecting a given executable have been identified, the testing process by executable can be automated.

Good Results Expected From Changes

The end result will be 1)faster response on client requested enhancements within a supported release, 2)easier support of the various operating platforms, 3) lockstep inclusion of all enhancements available on the BBS immediately after the qa process and 4)happier clients.

Unibase by DMAC is actively supported for releases 7.3i and 7.4i with 7.3i receiving all new enhancements which do not require the features unique to 7.4i. This approach will be maintained when the 1997 GUI/MUI Unibase by DMAC release is available for it and 7.4i.

Earlier releases of Unibase by DMAC (releases 7.1, 7.2 and 7.2i) are supported on the hotline and BBS, but no new enhancements are added to these versions without specific client requests and charges.