Anyone take into consideration the lack of skills nowdays. I am sure IBM is also running into this situation.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Mar 3, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 21:39:59 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >> At 08:54 -0600 on 03/03/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Me? (was: >> SAVE macro, I think): >> >>> And I have known IBM support to reply to my minimal test >>> case similarly to, "Why do you need this program to work? >>> It appears to do nothing useful." >> >> After getting this type of blow-off reply to a submission of a >> minimal demo,in future problem submissions I always added extra >> comment documentation to the start of the code to acknowledge that >> the code did not do anything useful EXCEPT demonstrate the >> problem/bug - Thus cutting short the first round-trip for the >> usefulness query. > Another variant I got once was, "Are you seriously developing an > application, or are you just testing?" I replied, somewhat snarkily, > "Testing, but not 'just testing'. I consider testing an essential > part of software quality assurance. Apparently IBM believes > otherwise." > > In honesty, sometimes when reading a description of a feature, > perhaps a new one, in a manual, I think, "It would be difficult, > perhaps logically impossible, to code that feature to operate as > described, particularly in some boundary condition." So, out of > intellectual curiosity, I code a test case to exercise such a > boundary condition. Usually, I'm pleasantly surprised that the > feature works as described. If not, I submit a PMR. > > Where's the Black Team when you need them? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
