Running the Endgame

About

Sharpen's Endgame is inspired by the Visual Studio Code release "ritual" of the same name. It's main purpose is to increase Sharpen's quality and stability. Out in the wild Sharpen runs under different versions of Visual Studio together with other installed extension. As I once wrote: "Software is hard. And ƃugs are inevitaƃle." And so is the probability that on other people's machines something will go wrong although "it works on my machine". By trying out release candidates on random installations of Visual Studio and by analyzing different solutions we hope to at least increase the chance that bugs that could cause Sharpen to crash would be discovered on time.

The Run

Running the Endgame is easy and should take not more then a few minutes of your precious time. If you are interested in becoming a Runner, please send me an email at ironcev at hotmail com.

As a Runner you will be provided with a public download link of the Sharpen's release candidate. Upon downloading and installing the extension you should try do one or more or all of the following:

• Running Sharpen's full solution analysis on the Sharpen's SmokeTests.sln
• Running Sharpen's full solution analysis on the NHibernate's NHibernate.Everything.sln
• Running Sharpen's full solution analysis on a solution of your own. The bigger and older the solution you are working on, the better :-)
• Trying out the new features published in the release. This more or less means clicking around the Sharpen Results window while trying to see if everything works as expected.

The Run Results

After you Run the Endgame, just send me a short email containing the following:

• Noticed issues (if any; the hope is there will be no issues to send :-)).
• Short info on what was done (Smoke tests, NHibernate, own solution, tryout).
• Your version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework. To obtain them, go to Help -> About Microsoft Visual Studio and click on the button "Copy info". Send me the first five lines.

To get the idea of the information that has to be provided, see the published results of the Endgame for Sharpen v0.4.0.

Publishing the Results

Upon receiving the results I'll publish them in the following format.

If you do not want your name to be published just let me know. In that case I'll post it as an anonymous contribution to the Run.

I'm looking forward to your participation :-)