Re: XP Question about Metaphor

From: Phlip (phlip_cpp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/22/03 

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:04:03 GMT

Sebastian Czort wrote:

> The design phase is over when the coding phase is over (or minutes before,
> if we want to be pedantic). Switching from coding to design is effortless.
> The switch is done so effortlessly that it does not make much sense to
> compare it to travelling up a waterfall (although, technically we could
> compare it to travelling up a, fx., 10 cm waterfall - is it perhaps
> misleading to call water falling 10 cm a waterfall?).

If you design only after the tests pass, you have inverted that waterfall.
;-) 

--
  Phlip

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