[LRUG] Ruby Contracting

[Steven Mohapi-Banks]

Ahh the Boehm spiral. My lecturer at university always became rather  
excited about that

Steve

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On 20 Feb 2009, at 10:57, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor at games-with- 
brains.com> wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2009, at 08:06, Anthony Green wrote:
>>> The [T|B]DD fad has to run its course. Perhaps when more developers
>>> find themselves working with the exacting non-functional  
>>> requirements
>>
>> You think so ? I just boarded that train and I don't think it's  
>> going to be
>> reaching maturity quite yet.
>> To me [T|B]DD is a part of a journey that began with the 'Failure  
>> of the
>> Software Industry' in the 60s, that has passed through 'The Mythical
>> Man-Month', The Agile Manefesto, Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns  
>> and many
>> other interesting towns (some of which are worth revisiting).
>> I would say its not a methodology you can or would want to employ
>> everywhere.
>
> I'd say that of all the popular methodologies. The only one I've  
> ever had much time for is the Boehm Spiral which is neither  
> proscriptive nor particularly demanding - write some code, debug  
> some code, repeat until done. Then again I prefer to work on  
> problems in their natural time and pursue the many scenic byways  
> that present themselves, I find that leads to better solutions than  
> more focused approaches and the overall cost is much lower thanks to  
> the low maintenance that elegant and appropriate solutions require.
>
> I guess I read too much Knuth as an undergrad :)
>
>
> Ellie
>
> Eleanor McHugh
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