Office® XP Development with VBA

Chapter Twenty-One. Debugging, Deploying, and Supporting Your Application

Writing the code for your Office application is only the first step in creating a finished custom solution. It is perhaps the biggest step, the one that will take the most time, but you cannot stop there. Once all of the program's features are complete, you then need to thoroughly debug and test the application, making sure that it performs as you intended and that unanticipated problems, or bugs, do not crop up. Once the application is thoroughly tested, it must be deployed, which is the process of getting it into the hands of your end users. Finally, most applications also require some maintenance, which consists of fine-tuning and other changes added at the users' request ...