On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Rick Schummer

<profox@whitelightcomputing.com> wrote:

>>> The fact that you got so far along before anyone noticed that important

> feature X was missing was what I was reacting to.<<

>

> You are making one huge assumption, no matter what methodology used, many

> users tend to not test until the very last minute. Often they don't realize

> it until they cannot do something in production after the release. I have

> seen this problem in tight iterations under agile approaches, and long

> iterations like the waterfall methodology. Even with test plans. Sure they

> say they test, but in reality they are busy using the old software doing the

> day job, and find testing too time consuming.

>

> Sure, all bad reasons and most of it inexcusable, but I have seen this

> repeated enough over the years to know I don't assume the end users ever

> test completely.

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