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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Judging Cost vs. Risk in Testing

Derick Bailey has a good post about determining the cost vs. value of doing testing.  No one who’s read this blog will be surprised that I particularly like this:

“There is a cost associated with a test-first approach. If you put in 100% unit test coverage, and 100% integration test cover and 100% end-to-end functionality test coverage, then you end up with 300% coverage of your system. Is the cost of maintaining 300% coverage worth it in your system? “

It’s a good read, check it out.

posted @ Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:04 PM | Feedback (0)
Favoring Value over Quality

Davy Brion has a good post up about how you should favor adding value in software development over that ephemeral ‘Quality’ that can lead to a never-ending drive for the never actually achievable perfection:

“So focusing on the quality of your code and design is a good thing, right? Of course it is, as long as it doesn’t prevent you from actually delivering your software to the people who are supposed to use it in a timely fashion. At some point, you are going to have to accept that you can’t spend all that extra time and money to make it perfect.”

It’s a good read, check it out.

posted @ Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:24 PM | Feedback (0)
I hate virtual keyboards

I have a project that will need to develop stuff™ for Windows Phone 7, Droid, and iPhone.  Accordingly, I finally got off the crappy but familiar Windows Mobile 6.5 stuff and got a Windows Phone 7 Samsung Focus (or whatever you call it) as my ‘daily’ phone.

There are many reviews out there about it, mostly positive with reservations, so you can google all that.

The one thing I worried about though seems to have come true.  I hate virtual keyboards.

Consistently, when I try to type a message or email or whatever, the virtual keyboard just doesn’t like what I’m trying to type.  It was never great with the physical keyboard of the Samsung Epix that I used to have, but I just can’t get my poorly trained fingers to hit the right keys on the virtual keyboard.

My hope is that I can train myself to aim for what seems to be the wrong spot, since that seems to be the key.  “The key.”  Gosh, I’m funny.

Otherwise, I really like the thing, but you can find more comprehensive reviews out there on google.  Not having Outlook sync is a problem, but I’m working around it.

posted @ Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:17 PM | Feedback (0)