Once upon a time in the land of HAL, I had to nursemaid thirty systems that were to be kept or brought up to a common level. Since they had to intercommunicate, level differences were not tolerable.
There was a multi-page list of procedure steps, to be performed in sequence but was never called a checklist. The most important thing experienced was that the steps could never be followed in exactly the same way two times in a row. Each update would vary something that required updating and modifying the list. Not the pilot's type of list. But it did perform a form of knowledge capture and enabled bring other people into the fold, which I think is what we would like to do. Cheers, Gene On 12/27/2014 12:23 AM, d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: > I took flying lessons. My instructor was a complete fanatic about > checklists. I learned their value in that context. For example, > > Landing Checklist: Wheels down and locked? > > Checklists matter a LOT. People do forget. > > It never occurred to me that they could be applied to programming. > This article > http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SoftwareChecklist.html > expresses the idea that they ought to be applied in software. > > There is a nugget of the checklist idea in the regression tests > but it isn't fully formed and reified as "checklisting". Some of > them are encoded in Makefiles but not in an explicit form. > > Years ago I started a "release checklist" to make sure I did all of > the steps necessary to pre-check a new release. I thought of checklist > as a crutch for my bad memory rather than an encoding of knowledge. > I'm now trying to encode the list into a continuous integration system. > > Given the blog post, I feel that the idea of an explicit effort of > creating, maintaining, and automating checklists could do a lot to > improve the quality of Axiom. > > Comments? > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Axiom-developer mailing list > axiom-develo...@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
