-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Many of us agree on the goodness of agile methods that lead to / allows to have frequent releases. Since when we work as consultants for a customer we have a good relationship with him/her (*), we can explain him what's happening (in fact, sharing the perspective and values is fundamental withing agile methods).
But what about end customers? We can't and we shouldn't evangelize them (they want to use the damn'd thing, not to learn about techonology), so they'll have their own perception. At the moment, I'm having a release per week for my Android application. I've still to learn how to do automated UI tests, but the rest of the code has a very good coverage; I'm manually filling the gaps, and since the application is simple I can afford to do it manually. In the end, I feel confident - when I have full UI tests I'll feel even more confident. But yesterday I happened to read the blog of an italian journalist, about the iPad application developed by one of the most spread italian newspaper. He said "the app is poor and they published an update right the day after the public release" - the tone was a critical one, as to point out defects of the first release. So, suddenly, I realized that maybe customers might see frequent releases... as a bad sign! What should one do? Keep frequent releases internally and publish only once in a while? PS Of course, this is related to the bad way the Android Market is done. There's no official place for a changelog, if you put it in the description field (which is short) it will consume room for a decent description of the application; and even if you publish the change log to your website, you have to find a way to have it read by the end customers... (*) If you don't have at least a decent relationship with your customer, the project will fail even when done with Agile^3, Java 8 with multi-dimensional closures, etc... - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwFA6cACgkQeDweFqgUGxff3wCfXQL0Dw7IFPpaLsXG1bN8pX/p /fgAnAsXKDrrYxsTBrHjCR32cnoX+mMX =tjSV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
