RE: More genteel than "Sanity Checked"

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Kevin McLauchlan wrote: 

> Let's say that, a few days before release, a customer spoke up thusly:
> "Well, we do have a few old Solaris 8 boxes in our deployed 
> universe, and we really do want to roll out your new release, 
> across the board - we'd hate to have to support multiple 
> versions of your product throughout our organization if we 
> can avoid that. Can we run your new version on the Solaris 8 
> boxes until we get around to upgrading them?"  
> We said "Sure!  We're quite confident - we'll just do a quick 
> check of the highlights, then we'll support it on a 
> best-efforts basis. Are you ok with it not being put through 
> the full wringer like the rest of the offering?"
> 
> Now, in the table of supported platforms and versions, that 
> should appear as...???  

"(limited testing)" 

You're trying to avoid jargon like "sanity check" and "smoke test," and
you want to indicate that limited testing was done. So, say exactly
that. Quit looking for some exotic, elegant, or trademarked term -- just
say what you mean in plain English. 

How do you say we did limited testing? By saying, "we did limited
testing." 

My $0.02. YMMV.

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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