Quote from: BioMike on December 20, 2017, 10:50:53 AM

Quote from: PeterPicker on December 20, 2017, 10:34:42 AM

Dev team has made a update about testing,

https://dev.gulden.com/what-are-our-testers-testing-for-the-gulden-2-0-update/

20-12-2017

What are our testers testing for the Gulden 2.0 update?
We have had this question come up from many community members so we thought it would be a good time to break down the parts involved. The 2.0 update involves tens of thousands of lines of code that effect every layer of the software, from the blockchain consensus, the transaction script layer to the network layer and UI. While the bulk of the code has been written and reviewed there is simply no replacement for repeated real world testing by multiple parties and this is what the testing phase is all about.

1. Phase 1 to 5 upgrade script for PoW2 and SegSig compatibility.
The above process eliminates the need for an immediate messy hard fork; allowing time for everyone to upgrade cleanly while also bringing the witnessing functinality into use as fast as possible. With the amount of services reliant on Gulden we have to keep downtime to an absolute minimum.

2. Witnessing balance in practise compared to theory.
The development team have come up with a new testnet called fastnets where each person can run their own simulations alongside our main testnet. This gives our testers the ability to fast track the results of witnessing.

3. SegSig introduces a completely new transaction format with up to 58% smaller transactions.
This new format needs to be tested in multiple ways to ensure that it works in all cases and for all transaction types and that no unexpected issues are introduced.

4. When it comes to user interface design nothing beats real user feedback.
As we reach the final part of testing our UX team and developers will be working closely with users to ensure that the interface is one that all users can use and not just the technically minded.

5. iOS and Android 2.0 compatibility testing.

6. Aside from SegSig and PoW², version 2.0 also introduces dozens of other bug fixes and various new upstream functionality.
While the main focus is on SegSig/PoW² it is important that all other functionality is also retested to not let any surprise issues through.

Lots of "Look all those awesome features we are testing, but not for you. Stay tuned for some undetermined time." and less "Testing is progressing fine, we're at % of the things we want to test, no serious bugs found so far. If no big bugs surface, next release could be around ."

SegSig is a larger update then PoW2, I still want to see how MaNI pulls off 58% savings on SegSig when the bitcoin devs could only manage 25% on SegWit.

Sure I will grant him best dev in crypto status if he manages it.