MidCOM 3 built in extreme quality and programming
Posted on 2008-06-01 14:03:44 EEST.
MidCOM 3 will be a great release. The whole codebase has been rewritten from scratch to take leverage all new features that Midgard 2 and PHP 5 can offer.
Also the build in feature of unit tests can provide a significant improvement for the users of MidCOM 3. Naturally the very core itself and most important components should have 100% coverage of unit test if possible. And these test should be automated and reported. This requires slight change of mindset and discipline. The very amount of effort required for testing does not decrease but the time for it shifts to the beginning of the implemetation. Before the code is written you must write the tests it must pass.
The very nature of component based structure of MidCOM will give good quality of the product if we can learn to write tests for the features that we are about to implemet. That is also necessary for the components especially if MidCOM 3 for example provides component inheritance.
As far as I'm seeing the future now with MidCOM 3 + Midgard 2 by doing some wise decisions we'll end up to a framework that actively encourages for using agile software developement methods and especially extreme programming. Hopefully with that we can cook in the quality for the deliveries we are making to our customers.
Also the build in feature of unit tests can provide a significant improvement for the users of MidCOM 3. Naturally the very core itself and most important components should have 100% coverage of unit test if possible. And these test should be automated and reported. This requires slight change of mindset and discipline. The very amount of effort required for testing does not decrease but the time for it shifts to the beginning of the implemetation. Before the code is written you must write the tests it must pass.
The very nature of component based structure of MidCOM will give good quality of the product if we can learn to write tests for the features that we are about to implemet. That is also necessary for the components especially if MidCOM 3 for example provides component inheritance.
As far as I'm seeing the future now with MidCOM 3 + Midgard 2 by doing some wise decisions we'll end up to a framework that actively encourages for using agile software developement methods and especially extreme programming. Hopefully with that we can cook in the quality for the deliveries we are making to our customers.