[Webtest] the happy old and New Year

[Dierk Koenig]

good point.

I thought about adding a link to http://ant.apache.org/external.html
but than became reluctant to do that as we currently have some
deficit in the documentation.

Mittie

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> [mailto:webtest-admin@lists.canoo.com]On Behalf Of Edgar P Dollin
> Sent: Montag, 10. Januar 2005 14:44
> To: 'webtest@lists.canoo.com'
> Subject: RE: [Webtest] the happy old and New Year
>
>
> 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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