In this show Matthew and Federico talk about what the ASP.NET QA team does to prepare for a release. Taking into account the recent release of ASP.NET 4 Beta 1, they’ll go over several of the "exit criteria" that the product must meet before delivery to the public.

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• Difference between Quality Gates and Exit Criteria
• Accessibility. Mainly manual tests to validate feature conforms to accessibility standards.
• Code Coverage. Metric used to identify problematic development areas.
• Stress. Specialized automated long running tests to spot memory leaks and other stress problems.
• Localization. Verification that the product can be correctly localized to several languages.
• Test Passes. Functional verification of the product across many platform combinations.
• Zero Active Bugs. Series of step down goals to drive feature crews to finish development.