We take bugs very serious and treat testing as an integral part of the process. The way we look at it, without thorough testing where the whole team is working together to make the product great, we’ll result in a mediocre product. Instead with CalendarBudget, every small problem identified is discussed and prioritized. Naturally, there is always a tradeoff of fixing every small detail that 95% of people won’t care about and getting the features out there, with the intent to fix the small outlier cases soon thereafer. High quality is a must if any product developer wants customers that stay.

We’re not too different than any development house, except a little smaller, more flexible and we try to follow extreme programming principles as much as we can – getting requirements from our users. However, to mitigate the enormous effort in testing, we’re looking into some form of automation – investigating http://seleniumhq.org/. This will get us closer to extreme programming principles of incremental builds since we’ll be able to get through testing more regularly rather than waiting until most of dev is complete (waterfall approach).