Erin Clerico

I think I am ready to start the official testing phase - the shakedown is nearly complete. What’s the difference between shaking down new software and testing it? Before the hunt for the real bugs in a semi-biggy process like this, one must fire it up and let it run top to bottom on a few sites and see if any nuts or bolts fall out. Nail the easy bugs first. The hunt for the fun bugs, the tough ones is when the real testing starts.

The process is running front to back on a large, complex site as I blog this.

Lots of bugs have been whacked this last weekend, the converted site product still has a few too many warts to declare then end of the shakedown period.

Tomorrow I will take on a second site, another news-post oriented site. My feeling is that this process will do a better job on news-post, or blogging oriented Manila sites.

Brochure type Manila sites - with a deep site structure for example, won’t convert as well in the first version. I will try out the process on a brochure type site before I’m done.