Improve reliability

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   The product is great and is unique in the market. Footprint Expert does not need new features but improved reliability.
The recent bug "FP designer with radial connectors" highlight the fact this software is very fragile. When you update a version to fix an issue, we don't know which new bugs will be appear.

Here are a few suggestions:
1-Introduce a bug tracking system. 
2-Create or improve your automatic test benches which will test new SW release with thousand of known good footprints. When a bug is fixed, it should be added as a new test in the test bench.
3-Do code review to check impact of modifications

I have a personal request, get an Orcad 17.4 license. There are many issues still pending, and you need it to test the build feature for Orcad/Allegro.

Best regards

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gvellet Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Active User Joined: 26 Jun 2021 Status: Offline Points: 46	Post Options Post Reply Quote gvellet Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Improve reliability Posted: 27 Jan 2023 at 10:32am
	The product is great and is unique in the market. Footprint Expert does not need new features but improved reliability. The recent bug "FP designer with radial connectors" highlight the fact this software is very fragile. When you update a version to fix an issue, we don't know which new bugs will be appear. Here are a few suggestions: 1-Introduce a bug tracking system. 2-Create or improve your automatic test benches which will test new SW release with thousand of known good footprints. When a bug is fixed, it should be added as a new test in the test bench. 3-Do code review to check impact of modifications I have a personal request, get an Orcad 17.4 license. There are many issues still pending, and you need it to test the build feature for Orcad/Allegro. Best regards



cgnd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Active User Joined: 24 Mar 2021 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote cgnd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Feb 2023 at 3:23pm
	A user-facing bug tracking system (like on GitHub, where we can see bugs others have posted and track status of these issues) is my #1 feature request for FPE.

Tom H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 5716	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom H Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Feb 2023 at 4:02pm
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