Message-ID: <560AD7FA-17DF-41B1-AE2D-B67B1081F65C@utoronto.ca>
Date: 2016-02-06T00:40:21Z
From: Boris Steipe
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Development Testers?
In-Reply-To: <CAKxd1KMiC_AC33qTYdZBWhyMx5NuxJFAh6qCPmNCaJQatwhjhw@mail.gmail.com>
Of course I can speak only for myself, but I'd help out if asked and I think in general you'll find people here to be a pretty helpful bunch.
Cheers,
Boris
On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for the R mailing lists but
> I'm not sure where else to ask.
>
> I am wondering if there is any means by which package authors can solicit
> testers for a package. I believe this is often referred to as 'crowd
> sourced testing'.
>
> I am aware of continuous integration platforms and unit testing (e.g.
> testthat) but that only gets me so far. In my particular instance I am
> developing packages for GPU computing (maybe this request would be best on
> the HPC mailing list?). As such, I can't possibly have access to every
> type of GPU. I would like to find a means of 'recruiting' users who may
> have different pieces of hardware to test my package. Of course this won't
> be exhaustive but any additional testing that others could provide would
> make the package all the more stable.
>
> Regards,
> Charles
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