Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:18:30 +1100 Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/02/10 00:09, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:01:49 -0800 (PST) alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Andreas Waldenburger <use...@geekmail.invalid> wrote:
But as I said: a) I am (we are) not in a position to impose this
(We don't work with the code, we just run the software).
I personally believe that the end users have _every_ right to
impose quality requirements on code used within their
business...although I may not bring this up in front of them at
meetings :)
Huh? That's like demanding a certain type of truck or vehicle
maintenance plan from a trucking company. Sure, you *could* do it,
but that effectively only limits your options. I think there should
be a clear separation of concerns here.
If my truck contains food items that spoils quickly, I would want to
make sure that the trucking company takes good care of their
refrigeration system and that the truck have as little chance as
possible for breakdown due to poor maintenance.
My point was that it should not be any of your concern *how* they do
it, only *that* they do it.
Back in the software world: Those guys write code that works. It does
what it's supposed to do. Why should we care where they put their
comments?
If you've bought the code and want to maintain it, you'd better make
sure it's possible.
By the way, the ISO 9001 standard ask for your out sourced processing to
be compliant with your QA objectives, so if you care about your code,
then you should care for the code you buy.
JM
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