RE: AW: Another Midrange Forum Falls Over and Can't Get Up

Well... it's not really related to "windows based," it's just plain poor implementation... maybe lack of knowledge, experience, money, or time. In any case, it's bad, but it happens everywhere, regardless of the platform.

Good QA practices are not old dinosaur stuff... indeed, have you looked in the recent practices about test-driven development and agile development and testing? I am impressed. I confess that I don't use them (yet) in my shop, but it actually goes beyond the typical approach (making somebody test your stuff by playing with it in a safe testing environment). Here are a couple links to modern testing practices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_testing and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Winchester Terry
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:14 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: AW: Another Midrange Forum Falls Over and Can't Get Up

As just another "old timer" who believes in doing things
the right way, I couldn't agree more.

In my experience, this sounds like a typical "windows based"
project implementation ;-)

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:51 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: AW: Another Midrange Forum Falls Over and Can't Get Up

I said:

But the database errors on the System i Network site are
nothing but bad programming. To have a fatal database

error in a production

site - that's simply unacceptable.

And right now, two days later, the forums are still down, although
currently they are down while they "test new functionality". IMHO,
that's the sort of thing you do *before* you put code into
production, but that's my silly old-school dinosaur mentality again.

Joe

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