... While I do hold the view that the WB/BB terms don't apply well to TDD, I would offer this thought, reflecting on the middle sentence above: A test-first...
... not when they're not. Once in a while I let the randomizer run more than once, but generally that's just when it has picked something that seems to me to...
Ah. I misquoted. My apologies. Corrected: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. --Inigo Montoya " You last used it a...
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... I've received about 3000 emails from you today. There must be a better way. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com How do I know what I think until I hear what...
I am not so sure I understand Kent Beck's flat cost curve of change. Even with TDD the cost of a defect fix is going to much greater when the system is live...
... Even ... system ... The key part is *how* much greater. In a "normal" dev environment, if you have to fix a defect found in production, there is usually a...
... I've heard this quoted lots of times before, but it's not my experience. I'd suggest that it's not really anyone's experience. It's based on industry ...
... I really have to wonder about your experience. A bug caught before it's released to the code line costs ... just about nothing. A defect in production...
... I like this article by Scott Ambler http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/whyAgileWorksFeedback.html Highly iterative techniques manage to minimize change costs...
The juxtaposition of my butchered quote of Chris's message and the first paragraph of my reply doesn't make my meaning clear. Had I included the rest of Chris'...
... I think he has since reconsidered the /Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change/ First Edition curve. I don't care. I think the cost of a defect fix...
I certainly don't have any hard evidence, but I think it's without discussion that fixing a bug during dev is MUCH cheaper then fixing after development (in...
Surely the cost of a bug depends on context but I do think there is a
tendency for the cost to increase non-propotionally as we move further
from the point...
STEURS Stefan
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Again, I hope my point is clear: There is indeed a tendency for the cost of a bug to increase the later it's found, BUT 1) It's a tendency; it's not absolute;...
Hi Michael, I believe it is more than a tendency, however the steepness (angle) of the cost curve depends on the industry, and on what is included in the...
I think you're right that context is everything. In our case a production bug can quite easily be a hundred thousand times more expensive to fix. A one hour...
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... Greetings Bernard, Can you describe the process that you've seen to be most successful in aerospace development? How much time is spent in initial design;...
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You've asked a set of questions that are worth asking, and you've identified a context in which it applies--which is exemplary. It's the context-free, ...
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I'd hate to be on a project that had such a high level of uncertainty and a fixed schedule (i.e. launch window). One of the previous NASA admins (Dan Goldin)...
