Is there really nobody who has searched for this kind of information? Or somebody who created a slide or blog entry about that, or something else?
I would be very thankful for any help one could give! Every link, argument, cite or fact would be great. Regards Hi everybody! > > I am collecting arguments for the Zend Framework to present it to my bosses > and i thought it would be helpful for others searching for the right > application framework. > I found some very useful slides and sites yet: > * > http://www.slideshare.net/zend/san-francisco-php-meetup-presentation-on-zend-framework > * http://www.slideshare.net/luckec/zend-framework/ > * http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/ > > What i am searching for now, are some facts and/or studies concerning how > unit tests, good documentation, an open-source community, etc. increases the > quality of code/application itself, the productivity, the speed of > development and how it lowers the time for a new developer to get > up-to-speed quickly. > > The reason why i am searching especially for this facts is the condition of > our self-made framework. Some facts: > The framework has a "component-based" like architecture, but it has no MVC > approach. It was designed about 6 years ago - which is not a bad point - but > somehow most of the new developments out there are missing or they were > implemented without refactoring some parts. Refactoring itself never > happened. There are no Unit Tests and there is no useful documentation - in > fact there is NO documentation or API reference available!! - I think that`s > the main problem. I also see a big problem when it comes to develop a new > application and new developers begin to work. > When you get how the framework works, after much reverse engineering, it > has also some very useful techniques and advantages for developers. > > Our web-application which is build upon this framework, is kind of stable > and most of its users are satisified. But I think that the productivity with > the zend framework would be better, it is more "future-proof" than our > current framework and the quality would be higher than now - This is what i > want to emphasize with some facts. > > > I hope you could follow me and someone out there could help me finding some > facts (and others searching for this kind of information / facts etc...) > > Thanks > >
