Title: Classic Mistakes Enumerated
Author: Steve McConnell
Comments: I am currently reading through Rapid Development (by McConnell). I have had it in my library for nearly five years, but I have never gotten around to reading more than bits and pieces of it. The chapter I am reading through now is called Classic Mistakes. The chapter enumerates and describes classic software development mistakes. At the end of the chapter, McConnell suggests that you make a list of your own classic software development mistakes. See below, for the few I came up with. If I had more time, I am sure I could come up with many more.
My own classic mistake list:
- Not properly unit testing in the development environment.
- Not properly unit testing in the staging environment, prior to QA's testing.
- Squeeze in just one more “small” feature in the final build, for QA to test.