On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 11:37 AM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2023-12-28 09:05, R Losey wrote: > > As a former software engineer, I've thought about volunteering, but it > > seems so massive an undertaking that it daunts me. I suppose I could > create > > a VM (if my machine is powerful enough to handle a VM) and do some beta > > testing. > > VirtualBox should work in any modern Windows computer, and setup is very > easy if you don't want to do fancy stuff. That's what I used to do my > testing in the three-step upgrade from 2.6.19. > > I too am a former software engineer, and I too am daunted by the > prospect of testing. But for me it's that I wouldn't know where to > begin. If the programmers could give some guidance -- "test this version > that fixes bugs X and Y", I could do that, and in the course of > exercising the test version for the stuff I normally do in GC I could > report any new bugs I noticed. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > I used to run VirtualBox on my iMac (and ran Windows 7). I was just concerned about the running VirtualBox on Windows 10 and emulating Windows 10... I'm not sure I have another copy of Windows 10 to run, nor am I sure that I have enough memory (computer RAM or graphics card RAM) to properly support a Win10 VM. As for testing, there are two kinds: You can test the actual bugs fixed by getting on the GNUcash bug reporting system and looking at recent changes. However, I gathered from a previous post that even more needful of that is to have regression testing done -- making sure that a new "fix" hasn't broken any existing features... this is where a lot of regular users could be handy... just create a "safe" environment (such as the aforementioned VM) with a copy of one's GNUcash file, and then just do the things you normally do to ensure that they still work correctly. I get the idea that this could be immensely helpful, as everyone has certain areas that they use frequently. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
