MySQL 5.1 GA is of good quality
Hi, Been a while since I lasted posted. It has been a busy year with testing on 5.1, 5.1 Replication, the Telco branches of cluster and doing test Automation. I know many have read the post that one of the founders did about MySQL 5.1 GA and the known issues with it. I as QA wanted to extend my take. I started working for MySQL back in April of 2005. Official QA had only been around since Feb of 2005 and I think I was the 3rd or 4th brought in. My position at another DB software provider had gone to India which allowed me to find this opportunity. When I first started, there were not many things in place for QAing the product and very limited automation. Even so, finding bugs was like shooting fish in a barrel with and over sized shotgun. In fact, I spent more time writing bug reports then I did testing. There was a lot of low hanging fruit. Some the size of cherries and some the size of watermelons. MySQL 5.0 was already behind and had many known and unknown issues. Before the officia...
