Hi David, please find my comments below...
Regards,
Christian
David Wilson schrieb:
I would like some advise about when a Specification Document should be
written.
I have submitted quite a few enhancement requests for Writer most of which are
at status=new, some of them have an assigned owner and some are still
owner=requirements. I have 22 issues and enhancements submitted, and since
the first, the historic 4292, in April 2002, one enhancement, I think, has
been implemented.
(my list of issues -
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_type=DEFECT&issue_type=ENHANCEMENT&issue_type=FEATURE&issue_type=PATCH&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&email1=dnw&emailtype1=exact&emailreporter1=1&email2=&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter2=1&issueidtype=include&issue_id=&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=allwords&long_desc=&long_desc_type=allwords&issue_file_loc=&issue_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anytokens&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&Submit+query=Submit+query )
It is clear that if it were decided to implement a enhancement/feature it
would speed up the process if I had written a specification document before
hand.
But would writing the specification document increase the the chances of the
enhancements being accepted ? If no one is interested in the enhancement then
no one will read the specification document and it will be a wasted effort?
Specifiations have nothing, really nothing to do with getting a feature
accepted, or not. If you come up with a great idea write the idea down
in the RFE, that all.
The documentation work, how a feature behaves starts when the RFE, Patch
got reviewed and accepted.
At what point in the QA process should one feel sufficiently encouraged to
start writing the specification document ?
QA needs the information how a feature is intended to work when they
start testing a the CWS. Based on specs they write test cases, scripts
for doing automatic testing.
Except for the bibliographic
enhancement, no has ever asked me for more information regarding an
enhancement/feature I have submitted.
Or would producing a specification document at the start have help to reduce
years of bickering and lack of resolve around some rather simple issues like
"Increase some field lengths in the bibliographic database" @
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16268
No, writing a spec wouldn't help. A good description in the RFE or bug
should be more than enough....
regards David
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