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Is Eeyore Designing Your Software?

4 pointsby tomhabout 17 years ago

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edw519about 17 years ago
Actually, his example was the SIMPLE case. It was an enhancement. For a real change, you'd have to add everything needed for regression testing. That would double again what was needed.<p>Once I was doing service work for a large software house and had to enlarge a dictionary for one customer by 2 characters to handle some of his data. 11 weeks and 4 committees later, my mod was rejected because of impact on other customers. Bottom line: 5 minutes dev work, 50 hours overhead for that change.