The Laws of Software Process

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Agile and the Orders of Ignorance

Major Variation

Of course, minor variations have a way of becoming larger and more

complex. As these more-complex situations start to become well under-

stood, the developer will often build into the execution script some of the

predicate logic that operates in the functioning system. This logic usually

operates on the variable data to set up different varieties of test. The script

now becomes bigger and more complex. For example, not only will the sys-

tem run a variety of data values present in transactions, it is also able to

test a variety of transactions themselves.

Contextual Variation

This is a further extension of the major variation. Now significant oper-

ation components are modified, data is retrieved perhaps ...