> I've actually found that to be fairly useless. The best way to test board software is to put it into production, unfortunately.

Well, we'll have to agree on disagreeing on this one, then.
I have posted a lot on the Cityscapes board before it was turned to Thorn and just stopped posting because I find the new software horrible and cannot be arsed to write a dozen bug reports so that it becomes as convenient as it already had been before.