How to ask people to test your program?

[celendin]

I created a virtual karaoke game for my website

http://www.themuzak.com

but it seems the majority of people I show it to won't test it out because it is an executable and they fear it is some sort of virus. How else am I meant to distribute the game?

The people that have installed it had been generally positive with some even describing it as interesting.

[PeejAvery]

In general, most people will not run an application from a person they do not know for the sake of a virus. Your best way is to provide the source code and allow them to compile it. Now, if you plan to market this, you will not want to do this. If this is the case, I would publish the product and that way people will not fear a virus because if you put a virus in a published product, then you will suffer the consequences.

People will lighten to it. If you are looking for beta testers, you can post that in the job positions forum.

[Charu0306]

If you publish it as a website, you should be able to get interested programmmers/testers who could do it for money/free. Try writing a test program that tests all paths. Some kind of an automated program that invokes your functions so you can test it.