Archive for June, 2007

Highlander Field Test - Apply Here

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

We’re starting the field test for the next product release on our roadmap, code named Highlander. Some of the features we want feedback on are ASP.NET features, supporting .NET 2.0/3.0, consumption and creation of parameterized types (“generics“) in Delphi for .NET, Vista support, ECO IV and some very cool database features. Review the roadmap document […]

Quality Central Discussion Session

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Spent an hour with Nick Hodges, John Kaster, Calvin Tang, Jeff Wilsbacher and Mike Devery discussing Quality Central use in CodeGear.
We discussed a variety of topics, John also gave a walkthrough of the reporting QC provides, and we took a look at several QC clients. 
John also made a good point - QA should first be […]

More on Quality Central Automated Incident Reports…

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Chris Hesik sent me an email this morning offering to show me the tools he’s using to data mine the AIR’s in Quality Central. Of course I agreed, and we’ll meet on Monday.
In addition he sent the following out on an issue he found using this tool to another R&D engineer.
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I’ve been doing some data […]

Pushing the Quality Central ‘clean up’

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Hard numbers - a search this morning on Quality Central resulted in 3980 Reported issues for Delphi.  This should include ’everything’ - all versions, all locales, feature requests, the works.
What’s interesting is the C++ number - 144. David Dean (was an active field tester, now a member of my team), and Leo Siefert seem to be the […]

Delphi/C++ Team, Quality Central and Bug Prioritization

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Quality Central is getting a lot of attention this week. I found out we had over *two thousand* QC reports in a ‘reported’ state. Yes, the system is expected to be maintained by Sysops and community members, but it’s starting to make CodeGear look like we do not care about our products. We really do […]

Delphi for PHP Update 2, Field Tester wanted

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

We have an update for Delphi for PHP in the works, a more major update then the first one. It’s ready for testing, and we’re looking for folks interested in testing this update to ensure it’s of good quality. If you are interested, please fill out this simple form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AsT7NAxv4zC5WYKIaK9pRw_3d_3d   Thanks for helping us […]

Major D2007 Update coming…

Monday, June 4th, 2007

A major update to Delphi 2007 is coming soon to an online update near you. Over 300 fixes made to Delphi as part of the Cogswell release, which includes 102 reports from Quality Central. It’s been about three months, and we made several major improvements in Vista support (the forms.pas fixes we’ve had under test […]

C++Builder 2007, Compiler changes

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

In C++Builder 2007, we’re making changes which can be considered ‘breaking’ changes to certain previous projects. MSBuild has been introduced, so you may need to be careful on project imports (if you’ve manually edited your project - the importing will not be automatic in all cases), the compiler is stricter and we’re providing an updated and improved […]