I don't think it is possible to mitigate this variation. All this bakeoff would do is provide metrics for comparison. Each metric would have a different level of importance to each person evaluating the bakeoff. Further, I would suspect that once the results of the bakeoff are in, others would attempt to recreate the results producing more data.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Sean A Corfield > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] bakeoff > > On Saturday, Mar 29, 2003, at 20:50 US/Pacific, Matt Liotta wrote: > > The idea would be to take one set of application requirements and then > > build an application using each of these techniques. Metrics like time > > taken to develop, lines of code, performance, etc could all be captured > > for each. Obviously, developing all of these applications would take a > > considerable amount of time. However, if many people were interested we > > could each take one technique each and then share our results. > > I agree that it would be interesting to do this but I can see a flaw in > the process: different CFers take different amounts of time to solve > the same problem, even using the same approach, and we'd also likely > get code that performed wildly differently. > > Of course, this is true, generally, across IT and not limited to CFers > - someone with twenty years software engineering, a CS degree and who > is fluent in half a dozen languages is going to produce radically > different results to a self-taught programmer who has used mainly one > language for even half a dozen years. > > How do you suggest mitigating that variation? > > Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
