Sometimes it happens
This last week has been rather hectic. I’m gearing up for a vacation (a much needed one) and I had a few loose ends to take care of.
The new version of our software is taking longer than anyone had anticipated. But this is good. I’m really testing the durability of the software this time out. I already told the programmers that I wouldn’t tolerate any crashes. If I make the application crash, I return it and have them fix it. Slowly but surely the duration of someone using the software is growing.
This is important to me simply because my vision is someone sitting in a Starbucks, spending an afternoon using this new program. Right now, the average user of Version 1.0 uses the program for 45 minutes at a stretch. I want to at least be able to use the software for that long of time without it crashing. If the program is continually crashing, this disrupts the work and frustrates the user.
At the end of the day: quality trumps speediness. We’ll still be the first software to encompass all that we do. But if the program doesn’t work very well, what’s the point? The damage is done.
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