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October 19, 2007

High abstraction level of DSLs to reduce the testing burden?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sadache @ 5:10 pm

This post has been originally posted on http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/10/dsls-abstraction-vs-unit-testing

Inconsistencies between the user interface and user’s expectations can be an important source of bugs. According to Leonardo Vernazza, this is due the fact that the user and the UI do not talk the same language. Using a DSL, characterized by a high abstraction level, would be instrumental for avoiding the risk of translation errors and would therefore reduce the testing burden.

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October 11, 2007

Religion driven industry: buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection

Filed under: Architecture, Agile Programming, Conferences, JAOO, Delivering Value, Methodologies, Agile in the Enterprise, Useability — Sadache @ 5:23 pm

This post has been originally posted on infoQ on Religion driven industry: buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection

James O. Coplien has recently argued that today’s industry is based on buzzwords and checklists. The use of some techniques and methodologies, TDD for instance, has become “a religious issue”. This prevents from inspecting possible tradeoffs and focusing on finding solutions that would be the most appropriate and the most cost-effective . (more…)

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