>> 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.

Rick

White Light Computing, Inc.

www.whitelightcomputing.com

www.swfox.net

www.rickschummer.com

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