How do you elicit high-quality information from information sources that are subject to deletion, distortion and generalization? According to Jim Arlow, the answer is generative analysis, which is a new approach to learning object oriented analysis that teaches you how to deal with these and other real-world human issues of software engineering. Also, Mike Kelly examines a recent testing experience that should have worked: plenty of scripted test cases, plenty of time developing and testing the scripts. So what went wrong? Plenty.
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Member since:2006-02-15
Well, take a detailed look at this specific article. It takes a very long time to say:
Organize information.
Discover relationships.
Ask questions.
It is, if you were paying attention, what your English teacher tried to teach you as a high school freshman. (Substitute language and grade as appropriate.)
Worse than that, the entire article has no insights in it about how to organize, discover, or ask. It's unnecessarily verbose (someone was writing to a column size,) unnecessarily jargon rich (someone was trying to impress) and unnecessarily simple.
I will give the author credit, at least, for obeying Bohr's dictum to never express yourself more clearly than you think.
Member since:2005-08-08
haha. i agree with you somewhat cloudy. but i am having difficulty passing any further judgement as i'm having difficulty just reading the article for the reasons you stated.
judging by the seriousness of some of the comments, i feel i'm not the only one 
Edited 2006-06-07 03:09
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2005-11-15
Even if I don't agree with you fully, that is really an statement that comes to be true a lot of times. John learns how to use OO, starts to see objects all the time and forget about better ways to approach a particular problem. Its kinda like religion, he doesn't want even discuss it, the truth was revealed to him. Amen.