Even when developers have to eat their own dogfood, they may be too familiar with the product to recognize issues that customers might encounter.
Does anybody have access to a pool of untrained testers? IMHO, that's essential for adequately testing a user interface. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Doug Fuerst <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 7:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me Back when I was an FE, we used to discuss the fact that some components were so difficult to replace that the designers probably never had to actually replace them. We always thought that the designers should have to replace every part we had to replace in the field before the design was signed off on. Never happened though... Doug Fuerst ------ Original Message ------ From "Brian Westerman" <[email protected]> To [email protected] Date 7/11/2024 0:32:21 AM Subject Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me >It just occurred to me that maybe the people who build z/OSMF never really had >to use it to build a production system. Building something that IPLs is >simple. building a production replacement takes some doing and having someone >that might not really "get" the entire process can really make the process >quite hard. > >Just a thought. > >Brian > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
