[Webtest] the happy old and New Year

[Edgar P Dollin]

Marc:

Where possible it is always a good idea to do things in sequence.  However,
it is easy to forget the priority that advertising (in this case a book)
almost always takes precedence over substance.  This does seem to go against
intuition but it is a fact, that if something exists in enough minds, then
it exists in reality.  I also am discounting the advertising of a completely
non-existant product, as that is not the case here.

This would also have the benefit of motivating people to do the jobs you
just outlined.

Edgar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Guillemot [mailto:mguillemot@yahoo.fr]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:28 AM
> To: webtest@lists.canoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Webtest] the happy old and New Year
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I find the idea of a book quite exciting too and I would be 
> interested in being involved if anyone else plans to go 
> ahead with this idea.
> 
> However I think that we should not forget the "essential of 
> webtest", i.e. the program and the web site before spending 
> too much time on a book. It would be even more essential if a 
> book comes to live (what to do with an excellent book if 
> readers get disappointed at their first look at the program 
> or the web site?).
> Particularly, I think that following points should be addressed:
> - update/improve the documentation
> - add bug tracker tool (Kay's argumentation is very good, I 
> don't need to say more)
> - add/update steps to plainly use the now quite good 
> javascript support
> - have a clean structure of the code
> - have a change history (the one of htmlunit 
> http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html would be 
> a good example)
> (and I surely forget other points)
> 
> These are not stoppers for starting writing a book but I 
> think that they should be fixed before publishing it.
> 
> What is about articles already written about webtest? Dierk, 
> do you own the rights of the article you wrote (in German) 
> for iX? Can it be presented/linked on webtest website?
> 
> Marc.
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