... So my XPAU2002 Open Space session, SoftwareAndTheScientificProcess, wasn't completely insane(*) after all? ...
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Bob.Jarvis@...
bobjarvis2000
Aug 1, 2004 4:43 pm
Another presentation that included more of the six sigma (& CMMI) aspects ... http://nycspin.org/Resources/XPStory.pdf BJ Adam Wildavsky <adam@tameware...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Aug 1, 2004 8:23 pm
... I'm a little puzzled by this. Could you tell us more? Prevayler reads are all in RAM with no context switch, whereas reading the file would seem to require...
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Steve Bate
noetic8
Aug 1, 2004 9:26 pm
... Hi William, There are several potential reasons for the performance increase. We maintained a simple write-though cache of the data so read performance ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Aug 1, 2004 10:02 pm
... We might be drifting off, but it's very interesting. I hope that folks with the right tools will dig into this. On the face of it, it's not clear what's...
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Carl G. Alphonce
carl_alphonce
Aug 2, 2004 12:45 am
Dear colleagues, Do you use OO design patterns? Do you teach an objects-first CS1? Do you have some nifty examples you'd like to share? If so, read on! ...
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Jeff Grigg
jeffgrigg63132
Aug 2, 2004 3:15 am
... I wonder if Prevayler is flushing too much. Flush tends to be an expensive operation. Maybe Prevayler needs to be tuned to flush command serialization to...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Aug 2, 2004 3:20 am
... Indeed. It would be great if you could post your experiences, perhaps just by forwarding your answer to my question, to ...
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Dominic Williams
d0minicfr
Aug 2, 2004 9:00 am
... I appreciate the importance of executing full unit tests in a very short time. However, TDD is also a design technique. I have observed that mocking or...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Aug 2, 2004 9:30 am
... I'm not seeing why this might be true. (I do have my own fear that without integrating the code it won't work, but that seems to me to be a separate ...
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Sami Mukadam
mukadam_sami
Aug 2, 2004 9:56 am
Hi All, I was looking for an example where extreme programming is succesful in outsourced cases(software development outsourcing) to different geographies and...
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Robert Watkins
robertdw26
Aug 2, 2004 10:56 am
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:03:46 -0700 (PDT), Sami Mukadam ... Sami, You can't outsource XP without outsourcing the customer as well; one of the strong requirements...
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Steve Bate
noetic8
Aug 2, 2004 1:31 pm
... Hi Dominic, We've had quite different experiences and results. Although our current team is mostly in the seasoned OO programmer category, I've seen the...
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Dominic Williams
d0minicfr
Aug 2, 2004 1:32 pm
... See below. ... Yes, I share that fear, because I have seen it borne out in practice, but it has not been such a big issue as the other ones. ... I didn't...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Aug 2, 2004 1:38 pm
Ron, ... Those collaborators have to come from somewhere, though. Are you assuming that A is instantiating B and C ? If A is using instances of B and C that...
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Steve Bate
noetic8
Aug 2, 2004 1:44 pm
... Early in the project we manually wrote mock classes. These were reusable in different situations. Now we use a reflection-based mock implementation that...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Aug 2, 2004 1:54 pm
... As I understand the terminology, the word "mock" should be reserved for objects which, in addition to simulating the real thing for the client objects,...
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Dominic Williams
d0minicfr
Aug 2, 2004 2:41 pm
Hi Steve, ... That's interesting. ... It doesn't sound like it from the rest of your post. ... It sounds as though I use the term "stub" for what you call a...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Aug 2, 2004 2:49 pm
Agilistas: Per a thread elsewhere, it seems that publishers lack the clout to direct bookstores how to arrange their books. This explains attrocities like...
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Steve Bate
noetic8
Aug 2, 2004 3:11 pm
... Even some of the mock implementations of mockobjects.com doesn't fit our definition of a mock because they implement some simple domain-related behavior in...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Aug 2, 2004 4:18 pm
... I have Deployment Tests, which generally use the Gold Master technique on deployment descriptors /or/ XMLUnit, to write the descriptors test-first. ... ...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Aug 2, 2004 4:20 pm
... If it weren't for interoperation with other applications that demand RDBMS... I just haven't had a real project on which I've been allowed to try...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Aug 2, 2004 4:39 pm
... Agreed. That's the reason I said "testing goal". I'm emphasizing that the approach I described is a testing approach, and not a design technique. I am...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Aug 2, 2004 4:45 pm
... <snip /> ... No, it doesn't bother me much, and I can't say why. Maybe the problems I'm solving at that simple. <snip /> ... Ah, no; for every /interface/...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Aug 2, 2004 4:49 pm
Dominic Williams wrote: ... But, of course! I do that, too, because it's just good design. For the rest, I use mocks. Perhaps I'd given the impression that all...
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Edmund Schweppe
schweppe@...
Aug 2, 2004 4:57 pm
... [ ... ] ... Interesting. I haven't found myself using mocks that much. OTOH, the first place I found myself using them was in a situation where the need ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Aug 2, 2004 5:51 pm
... Or that they come from somewhere, yes. ... Yes. I'd prefer not to do that and, in general, would not. ... I haven't the time or inclination to create one...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Aug 2, 2004 5:52 pm
... Understood. It occurs to me now that this is one of those things I'd expect a team to find its own balance on, and that biasing them at all might be ...
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Jeff Grigg
jeffgrigg63132
Aug 2, 2004 8:22 pm
... That's perverse. Why would sensible people go through all the trouble of building a proper three tier architecture, to separate presentation, business...
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Kari Hoijarvi
hoijarvi
Aug 2, 2004 8:50 pm
While I agree with the general consensus of this thread, I'd like to mention, that finding bugs is not the only use of debuggers. Since I'm a solo developer,...
