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Technology Stocks : Information Architects (IARC): E-Commerce & EIP
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To: tech who wrote (2613)9/26/1997 11:41:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell   of 10786
 
I wrote:
ALYD could get by with teams of just one person. However, for quality control reasons they choose to have a maximum of five people.

Tech responded:
Says a lot about their confidence in their own toolset when for every one person they need, they have to hire 4 more people just in case something goes wrong.

Spoken like a true non-programmer. If you had ever actually written a line of code in your life you would know how vastly different coding styles are and just how many ways you can accomplish just a single task. Programs that are tens of millions of lines long, like the ones remediated by ALYD, have been written over decades by dozens if not hundreds of different programmers. It just takes one to muck up the system and require someone to write a workaround.

The best tools, like ALYD's Smartcode, don't take anything for granted. When they spot "suspicious" code, they allow the operator to make changes on the fly or to mark it and write special work arounds if such techniques are used elsewhere. Many companies are so sure automated tools can't solve this problem that they'd rather just let body shops in India do the work. In many cases, only when companies like ALYD demonstrate how "smart" automated tools have become, and that actual human beings are there for quality assurance, do these companies feel confident enough to sign up.

Since you proclaim to have mastered your T/A software, and since you apparently think we are all a bunch of hypists, feel free to keep us "unemotional" with your T/A readings-- but please stop making, to be polite, "uninformed" comments about programming.

- Jeff
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