Quality Takes Time

We’re going to be spending more time on the Affino 5.5.15 release. Much as we would love to see it out today, we feel that we can polish it up a lot better following our most recent QA round. We certainly would not be happy to release it as is, given the great improvements in quality we’ve seen in Affino over the past six months.

There are two main areas causing us to push the release back, the first is that many of the enhancements have lead to ’it’s good, but wouldn’t it be great’ conversations, and we’re refining much of what we’ve done. The second primary cause is that the QA has brought to light many issues we want to resolve before release. This is not surprising given the overhauls that we’ve done with the page code generation and the revamped Live Editor, between them they touch on every single display-side page which in turn requires a vast amount of testing.

We have also identified two major clashing projects, namely Personalised Newsletters and the Clean Code project. The primary cause is that we’ve extracted all the CSS and JS code into separate files as far as possible. This of course is exactly the opposite of what is required for the Personalised Newsletters. Although the excluding the JS code is great, the problem is that emails require all the CSS styling to be inline, i.e. not called separately. It’s going to take us a fair bit of effort to sort this in an elegant and clean manner.

We’re moving the release back to next week and will keep you posted as to further developments.