“Children sometimes think that if they close their eyes and can’t see you, they’ve made you go away.”
This sentence is part of item “Compiler Warning Messages” but I think it must be had in mind for the way we make our decisions also even we are adults or we think we are such!
Excerpt from Code Complete :
“In addition to project-level test records, you might find it useful to keep track of your personal test records. These records can include both a checklist of the errors you most commonly make as well as a record of the amount of time you spend writing code, testing code, and correcting errors.”
What do you think about this practise ?
How well it will be integrated with “5 Why” approach from the Toyota management? In my humble opinion it will be gratefull!
If you can’t repeat it, you can’t improve it.
Author: Steve McConnell
The results of the TSP and cleanroom projects confirm another version of the General Principle of Software Quality: it’s cheaper to build high-quality software than it is to build and fix low-quality software. Productivity for a fully checked-out, 80,000-line cleanroom project was 740 lines of code per work-month. The industry average rate for fully checked-out code is closer to 250–300 lines per work-month, including all noncoding overhead (Cusumano et al 2003). The cost savings and productivity come from the fact that virtually no time is devoted to debugging on TSP or cleanroom projects. No time spent on debugging? That is truly a worthy goal!
Apr 1
The last book of Frederick P. Brooks “The Design of Design: Essays from Computer Scientists” has just been released and I have just bought it. I think you will like it too ! 