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04/25/07 18:47
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 		 #137939 - wishful thinking
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Without complete requirements analysis, there can be no design. It's just a guess if you don't have firm requirements in both function and performance

In most cases I have ewxperienced there has been "firm requirements" till they changed

What I have found useful is 'installing hooks' i.e. design based on everything I could imagine any one would want from the specific thingy and code based in the "firm requirements" with an eye to the parts of the 'complete' design not required.
If you look over my implementations, you may find a place where a state machine could be replaced by an 'if' statement that would be an example of the requirements in that area, indeed, being firm and my imagination being too vivid. However except for the ridicule from the next to tackle the project, which I could care less about, there is nothing wrong with a 'two state state machine'

Erik

List of 29 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
defensive design            01/01/70 00:00      
   re:defensive design            01/01/70 00:00      
   look at PC mainboards            01/01/70 00:00      
   proper design begins with requirements analysis            01/01/70 00:00      
      wishful thinking            01/01/70 00:00      
         it's a common problem and an easy fix            01/01/70 00:00      
            great when you can say no            01/01/70 00:00      
      you are a lucky man            01/01/70 00:00      
      re:walk away            01/01/70 00:00      
   You learn to be adaptive            01/01/70 00:00      
   A.K.A. 'conservative' design?            01/01/70 00:00      
      If you\'re clever enough ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   The problem with "specs"            01/01/70 00:00      
      It's not a guess, it's a contract.            01/01/70 00:00      
   This is not a new idea.            01/01/70 00:00      
      feasibilty study and embedded design!            01/01/70 00:00      
         They don't have to be experts ...            01/01/70 00:00      
            always do that            01/01/70 00:00      
         unfortunately "should" died some years ago            01/01/70 00:00      
   Idea nice but not for all embedded aplyable...            01/01/70 00:00      
      Less of a problem as time goes on...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Question acording the code size...            01/01/70 00:00      
            C & Asm            01/01/70 00:00      
      The more such is the case, the more            01/01/70 00:00      
         That\'s the trick!            01/01/70 00:00      
            a case in point            01/01/70 00:00      
               if the boss (or the salespeople) would know...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Aren't you senior enough to select where you work?            01/01/70 00:00      
   an added comment            01/01/70 00:00      

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