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I can’t believe it’s been over three months since my last update on how the business is going! So much for making it a “regular” feature…

Anyway, as predicted, things have been mainly heads down coding, and it’s all starting to come together quite nicely. For the past month or so I developed a test harness and have been doing lots of alpha testing.

Traditionally, alpha testing only starts once the product has reached “code complete”, when all the features have been written, but haven’t been fully tested. PeerBackup isn’t quite at that point just yet, but getting the automated test harness up and running means that I can be testing whilst finishing off the last few bits and pieces (and whilst playing football, or eating, or sleeping…)

So I now have a couple of machines dedicated to thrashing the software non-stop, all day and all night, and which send me an email if they find any problems. The last couple of weeks have been spent fixing the problems that the testing threw up, and it feels good to get the level of confidence in the software now that it can stand up to such a pounding.

The next step will be to reach code complete, at which point the release will be in sight!