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Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:37:30 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: QA equals testing, Part One:Detection

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Watson, Dave wrote:
>
> Having spent a few years writing requirements, I
> found that it's pretty hard to define the requirement
> adequately, up front, and the waterfall of the
> development process results in a refinement of the
> requirement manifested in the sequential specs.

Exactly. For what it's worth, I try to document (with lots of comments)
all my code so that you end up with the "spec" if you delete all the
code and leave only the comments behind.

Dave, you've identified the true path -- writing the spec. Lynn has
also been pushing the spec as the one true document but he's constantly
trying to incorporate it into code generation using just-in-time
manufacturing techniques and hallowed echoes of H. Edwards Deming (plus
Homer Sarasohn and Charles Protzman, to be fair). It's much easier to
digest "writing the spec" when there's a wall between design and
manufacturing, and Lynn's dream might more quickly bear fruit if he took
that tack.

- Peter

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