OT: Evaluating an Application

[Richard Kreiss]

I have a client that asked me to quickly write a new module for his application.  I did it and asked him to test it before going live.  He said the y did not have time to test it and put it into production.  The had made certain assumptions when giving me the specs for the job, however, they left out a bunch of things which would have come up if tested.  The program worked as the specs required.  It took me 2 days of work to add the features they had left out and it took them 2 weeks of 12 people working to update the records they had created.  One person testing the program would have caught what needed to be added but they were to too much of a rush to get the module in place and working to test it.

Ys there is a development location that they can use for testing new programming.  The also use that database for teaching new hires how to use the program as they can add and delete records from the main files without creating a problem.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting



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Subject: Re: OT: Evaluating an Application

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Laura Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> That should be "God knows"......
>> 
>> Being this detail oriented is great if you are proofreading books, 
>> articles, websites, etc. <g> In Internet posts, it often is the first 
>> volley for an ugly fight more often than not.
>
>What?!  That's -never- been a source of problems!!!  :)
>
>> > owners don't care about. Just deliver "faster, cheaper, easier" and 
>> > you
>
>But not necessarily 'better'.
>
>Isn't it Bill Campbell who has the sign in his office:
>
>"You can have it good, cheap, or fast; pick any two."  

I had that as well as the one I had in my race car shop:

Speed costs money.  How fast do you want to go.

Bill
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