<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1) Does evolutionary design consistently produce better
designs than
> > BDUF?
>
> Surely the context, and least the individuals and their skill
levels, and
> their dedication to the practices must matter.
Absolutely. Any experiment run will have to address this issue and
report for the skill set of the subjects. So experiment results will
contain references to the experience of the developers in that
experiment.
This brings up another related problem: experience doesn't necc. mean
skill level, dedication, etc...
So could it be that evolutionary design is better suited for
differnent developers? What are the parameters? Is there a
cross-over point? If so where?
>
> Surely any BDUF design done by anyone other than G*d will be
imperfect. If
> we evolve one of those imperfect bits to be better, can we not trivially
> guarantee that ED > BDUF?
Depends on the skill of the developer. If we were to compare to
traditional methods, usually the BDUF is put by someone of more
experience (and hopefully) skill than the implementor.
Amr
To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
