[R-pkg-devel] Development Testers?

[Boris Steipe]

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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