Immediate thoughts are -

Not enough of junit tests.

Not enough physical separation of the application into modules.

A small team so not enough manual testing.

Old problems with poor threading now catching up on us.

Lack of resource.

Lack of specific required skills.

Bob.

2009/3/19 Thomas Neustupny <[email protected]>:
> Hi Linus,
>
> you were asking questions that run through my mind, too.
>
> Linus wrote:
>> How do we know that we have seen the end of these?
>
> We can't. It depends on the intensivity of (the voluntary) testing. I had not 
> the time to test all diagrams until last week. We simply seem not to be fast 
> enough to get this software tested in a reasonable time. It's just that we 
> can't speed up quality assurance activities, because we suffer from testing 
> ressources and can't overcome it by just demanding it.
>
> Personally, I'm now almost through with my tests, so (hopefully) no more 
> findings from me. ;-)
>
>> And... what is it that we did since the 0.28
>> release that has made all these problems appear?
>
> I guess you mean 0.26. Well this makes me crazy, too! Suddenly things got 
> broken that worked well before, and in most cases we don't know why. And no 
> analysis on that. And still ArgoUML sometimes behaves weird (e.g. 
> Quit->WannaSave?->Yes->SavingButNotQuitting, or the deselect-select 
> workarounds) but I got used to it and don't dare to file an issue anymore for 
> these minor things because of the huge amount of open (more important) 
> issues. The team repairs for years now, and it's like fighting wind mills, 
> and I don't now why. Is it GEF or a global architectural problem? Or is it 
> normal for software of this size? Don't know, but keeps us from further 
> developing ArgoUML.
>
> Thomas
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