[Fg-general] Re: grant commit for next month

[Stephen Samuel]

Yes, I'd be more than interested in your idea of working with me on this.
If you give me a proposal of a couple of times when we could meet to do
this,
I'm sure that I can find a way to make one of them work.  Sunday an Mondays
are
acceptable options for this, as far as I'm concerned.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Luke Closs <lukecloss at gmail.com> wrote:

> (cc'd to fg-general as a good, open communication practice.)
>
> Hey Stephen,
>
> I thought I'd share some thoughts about what I'd like to see for the
> Vancity Grant Report next month.
>
> In Agile Development practices, there is the idea of "story tests", or
> "project tests".  These tests are basically re-stating the more
> verbose prose of the requirements.  The end result is a list of
> statements that *should be true* when the project is done.  Usually
> the process of writing these tests reveals the "implicit" requirements
> in a project, which has been extremely invaluable in my experience.
>
> So some examples would probably be good (i'm just making these up):
>
> * Wiki contains up-to-date process information on Build Program FooBar
> * 5 Build Trainers are actively involved each week
> * 20 Systems are built each week
> * 2 Grillion machines were built in the past year
>
> This kind of thing.  Basically they are statements that we can
> evaluate to be true or false.
>
> Anyways,  This may be a good way of thinking about and presenting our
> progress towards the grant.  So your focus becomes to keep working on
> the failing tests.  It's something you can keep coming back to.
>
> I just was doing this today with some work code and automated tests,
> and it was awesome.  Keep coming back to the tests.  See what is
> failing, then fix it.  Coding nirvana. :)
>
> Perhaps we could collaborate on writing some of these, if you're
> interested.  We could probably do the bulk of this on the public wiki.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>



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