Category Archives: Testing

A Preview of 1.7’s Improved Loading Time

As previously mentioned in this space, the primary improvement planned for the 1.7 update is a marked improvement to Lutheran Service Builder’s loading time. To illustrate what we’ve working on over the past six months or so, I’ve created a small video to showcase the dramatic increase we are seeing in alpha-testing, and we hope [...]

Status Update on 1.06 and First Information on 1.07

Some questions have rolled in as to the status of the 1.06 update and when to expect it (seeing as it contains several fixes to outstanding issues in 1.05 that are affecting some users). A release was scheduled and plans were made to roll out the update, but 1.06 has been sidelined for a little [...]

Version 1.06 Being Released to Beta Testers This Week

The headline sums up the gist of this entire post, in that we are going to be seeding builds of version 1.06 of Lutheran Service Builder to our group of beta testers sometime this afternoon or tomorrow, as it’s reached a point where we’re fairly close to release. It needs a little more testing and [...]

Final Testing and How It Really Isn’t

First of all, I would like to send out a notice that I am now actively looking for congregations who are using Builder to assist me in beta testing some updates. We’ve had enough trouble right now getting these updates off the ground – both data and application – and I would sincerely appreciate some [...]

Bugs, Testing, and Delays of Patches

Lutheran Service Builder and delayed releases have, somewhat unfortunately, become a bit joined at the hip. I know that our users notice this, and I’ve also noticed it through both being the person responsible for scheduling releases and delays to those releases, and the person who hears it from users when those delays cause frustration [...]