Re: XP Requirement Analysis?

From: Daniel Parker (danielaparker_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: 27 Oct 2004 09:16:25 -0700

"Ilja Preuß" <preuss@disy.net> wrote in message news:<clnim9$pmc$1@stu1id2.ip.tesion.net>...
> AndyW wrote:
>
> > If I took 300 programmers at $1k per day each and said go write some
> > tests - i'd go broke by the end of the week - doesnt matter how much
> > effort I saved later - wouldn't be able to justify to anyone a $1.5
> > million dollar expense and a weeks delay for what at the end of it all
> > is a non-critical expense.
>
> I have no idea why you'd think anyone is proposing to let 300 programmers do
> nothing but writing tests for a week. Could you please explain where that
> notion is coming from - it's likely a big misunderstanding.
>
I don't think so :-) The question is the business value of
"Programmers write unit tests for every line of production code" -
RCM. That's clear enough.

Regards,
Daniel Parker

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