There are many ways to distribute software to your customers; CDs, DVDs, and the Internet are the most common. If you might think that the process of producing a CD or DVD would have evolved to a point where testing is no longer required.

This unfortunately is not true. With a media such as DVD you first have to produce a master or gold copy of your software from which copies are made for distribution. If there are any mistakes in the gold copy they will be replicated to all of the media that will be distributed to your customers, and this in turn can devastate a company’s reputation and greatly increase costs.

These problems typically stem from developers using one environment for testing. The compliment of drivers, plugins, codecs etc included on the gold disc might be sufficient to install your product on that test machine but not others.

Another common problem are small content errors, such as spelling mistakes or incorrect information in change logs, or read me files.

Testhouse can help you ensure that your packaged software is complete, correct and compatible by testing across multiple platforms. This can be from very new high end PC to more common configurations and legacy machines, as well as tasks such as providing a new set of eyes for proof reading of documentation and content checking for guides and change documents.