Re: [Planner Dev] Developing reference planners files to help regression test planner - my ideas on this.

[Mark Durrenberger <m durrenberger comcast net>]

Perhaps I'm being picky and tell me so - I won't be offended,
but a Project PLAN is a collection of documents, a project SCHEDULE is just 
one of those documents (albeit an important one!).

Is Planner a schedule building tool? If so, it is a project modeling tool.

(George Box (a mathematician) said "All models are lies, some models are 
useful.")

So lets call these testing Plans Benchmarking Models. Each time a new 
version of Planner is released, we the developer community, must verify 
that the tool works as expected with each of the benchmarking models. As 
new features are added or old features change, new benchmarking models can 
be developed (or old ones can be expanded.

So, for example, we'll have Kurt's benchmarking model "Kitchen Remodel" - 
his model will contain
list of activities, deliverables, series of keystrokes/data entry, menu 
selections, calculations etc.

Your thoughts?
Mark

BTW, I'm slowwwwly getting to the point of actually helping on the 
development  -and I'm bubbling with ideas - sadly, work comes before 
pleasure :-)




At 09:00 AM 3/29/2004, Kurt Maute wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 16:42, Richard Hult wrote:
> > On fre, 2004-03-26 at 20:13 +0000, lincoln phipps openmutual net wrote:
> > > I want to create a number of reference project plans to
> > > add to the Planner CVS. These will be used for,
> >
> > A good idea! :)
>
> I like it too.  I have a sample project plan that I created for my own
> testing purposes... its a kitchen remodel.  With a bit of cleanup it
> could be useful as either a small or moderate project as you've
> described them.
>
> > It would also be good to use in the user guide. If we do translated
> > versions, the translated user guides could benefit from that as well.
>
> Yes.  I've been thinking the same thing.  The samples using tasks t1,
> t2, t3, etc. while quick and easy to generate, don't go very far to help
> the user like a real world example would.
>
> I'm considering using snapshots from this kitchen project instead since
> it seems like the sort of thing that should be understood universally
> (or nearly so) rather than something software or IT specific that might
> be lost on a portion of our audience.
>
> --
> Kurt Maute <Kurt Maute us>
>
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