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- From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.070133@eklektix.com>
- Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
- References: <17556@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov18.114414.9296@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1992Nov18.205130.13951@ultra.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:01:33 GMT
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- jerbil@ultra.com (Joseph Beckenbach) writes:
- >Gerry_Furseth@mindlink.bc.ca (Gerry Furseth) writes:
- >> Aphorism: If you can't write a testing plan from your design, the resulting
- >> code will be unreliable.
- >
- > Ideally you're refining the test plan while doing the design;...etc...
-
- These guidelines get more complicated if you start writing code first and
- derive the design from experience using the code. In that case, the
- evolving code tends to be in the driver's seat--not so much because the
- design is subsidiary as because it's lagging behind. The test plan then
- gets to chase both of them.
-
- (It's always a chase anyway, except in the rare cases when you get one of
- those delightful projects where the specs hold still through the imple-
- mentation. But code chasing specs is a lot more common, hence [I think]
- less unnerving.)
- --
- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
- ...Simpler is better.
-