[DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.

[Richard Vowles]

Even Kent Beck, in his podcast on Developer Accountability says that he
doesn't unit test GUIS. And yes, the Delphi team does use all of the
tools but it's a feature/bug tradeoff. If you have 200 bugs that you see
as being minor in an incredibly complex product and you are nearing ship
date, why not ship? The problem is discovering that the beta testing
wasn't quite as thorough as you'd hoped and there are 200 more that are
malignant :-(

Richard 


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Richard Vowles
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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Kyley Harris
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2005 5:25 p.m.
To: Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.

This topic of D2006 leads me to pose the following thoughts for comment.

Borland has taken big steps in aquisition to provide software for
lifecycle design and development, including memory optimization
software, leak tracking and feature tracking tools.  All these things
seem wonderful (if you can afford it). So why are there so many issues
with delphi after production release. We are trying to be sold on Unit
Testing, Memory Tracking, Bug Tracking, etc etc, with all these new
features in delphi, and the other products such as starteam, NUnit &
DUnit, and Optimizeit suites to name a few. It seems like Borlands main
marketing is in opposition to Rational for lifecycle tools, rather than
focusing on the requirements of the simple programmer requisites. It
used to be that most people thought of them without question as the IDE
and compilers of choice, but I think this is taking a back leg to High
Level tools.

I have to query weather the Delphi team is following the unit testing
and design philosophy that it is selling to us as the best thing since
sliced bread.

At the end of the day the most important thing to me is solid code, and
a good working IDE that supports my need of solid clean code, and
doesn't throw tantrums every five minutes. The brain is an excellent
tool for all the other stuff.
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Kyley Harris
Harris Software
+64-9-8455274
+64-21-671-821

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