March 4, 2008 8:17 PM
Posted by: SJC
Business Application Value,
Business process automation,
Database,
Database reporting,
Development,
Small Business Computing,
Software application development,
Software maintenance,
Software Quality,
Software testingExperience a major meltdown of your workstation and I suspect the value of various applications will come to mind VERY quickly! There is nothing like going without your favorite applications, or your workhorse applications for a few days to develop a significant appreciation for application value....
November 20, 2007 3:55 PM
Posted by: SJC
Database application,
Database application front-end programming,
Software application development,
Software maintenance,
Software Quality,
Software testingSo you have completed making the small changes required in your application, you have tested, you have debugged, you've done "everything" right! But alas, your application goes "live" and -- problems! Strange error messages are being generated faster than the eye can follow! You find yourself...
November 13, 2007 3:07 AM
Posted by: SJC
Agile,
Business process automation,
Database application,
Database application front-end programming,
Software application development,
Software maintenance,
Software Quality,
Software testingI've heard it said before that an expectation unfullfilled leads to upset, and I must honestly say that I buy into that 100%. How many times have we begun using a new piece of software with an expectation (or 2 or 3) that was left unfulfilled once we started using the software? I believe that...
November 1, 2007 11:28 AM
Posted by: SJC
Business process automation,
Software application development,
Software maintenance,
Software Quality,
Software testingGood program code first and foremost just "works" as expected, does the job for which it was designed, and provides trouble free operation in a timely fashion. Working, however, is only one component of good program code. There are certainly many other aspects to good program code which must be...
October 27, 2007 8:40 PM
Posted by: SJC
Business process automation,
Database application front-end programming,
Software application development,
Software maintenance,
Software Quality,
Software testingMaintainability is often included as a component of software quality, and as with so many software quality components, there has been much effort expended on measuring. For me trying to measure "software quality" in any manner seems to mimic something that I might see on the TV show "Numbers", it...
October 21, 2007 1:58 AM
Posted by: SJC
Business process automation,
Software Quality,
Software testing,
VirtualizationI honestly don't know how I managed to ever complete a software development project prior to virtualization. Although as I think about it more closely, I realize that the way I did it was to maintain a plethora of workstations, each with another O/S on it, and used only occasionally. It...
