Deploying Java EE applications into a WebSphere application server typically requires configuration within WebSphere of settings such as data sources, thread pool sizes, and maximum heap size. The WebSphere Administration Console provides a graphical user interface for easily doing this setup, but the fatal flaw of this approach is that it is manual – repeating [...]
Posts made in October, 2011
In my prior post The Trouble with Traceability I discussed the problems with doing requirements traceability, especially formal traceability using approaches like a requirements traceability matrix (RTM). Despite the flaws with traceability the underlying objective is sound: ensure that everything the customer or user requires is correctly delivered. So how can we achieve this objective? [...]
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In software development traceability is the linkage of requirements to the software and/or development artifacts like design or test cases. The underlying objective is to ensure that everything the customer or user requires has been correctly delivered. I have no quibbles with this goal, but in practice the applications of traceability I have seen leave [...]
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To fix defects or not fix defects, that is the question: whether it is better to suffer the complaints of outraged users, or to divert effort to investigate and eliminate them. Shakespeare quotes aside, every software development project has to make decisions on how many defects to fix and which ones to leave alone prior [...]
