This is a great idea. Scenarios put things in perspective.

On 7/28/08, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Looking through our user doc there is not much there that describes what
> features are available and how to use them. Some have detail, e.g JMS [1],
> some are non existent, e.g. Spring [2]. We (I) tend to get excited about
> implementing spec features or implementing Tuscany extensions. Personally
> when doing this I generally have a scenario in mind where I think the
> feature would be useful. I think it would be good to record these scenarios
> so others can read how we intended the software to work. I see we've started
> doing this in a few places. Ant's JMS examples [1] are mini scenarios,
> Luciano started adding scenarios to the Web2.0 roadmap ideas [3]. Also there
> are some other scenarios associated with the databinding testing I think
> Vamsi was doing [4].
>
> I was thinking about some different types of scenario so I made some notes
> [4]. I'm going to try and record Tuscany feature kind of info (maybe
> directly into the user guide if no one objects) in an attempt to achieve the
> following without having to think to hard about generating user docs
> subsequently.
>
> scenario -> helps define tests -> helps drive function -> most importantly
> describes to the user how a feature works
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Simon
>
> [1] http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-bindingjms.html
> [2] http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-implementationspring.html
> [3] http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-roadmap.html
> [4] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYWIKI/Scenarios
>
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