Category : softwareengineering

So I found this very interesting library in Google Code site. It turns out it is advertised as “LGPL”, which is good enough for me. However, in the README file of the library the author contradicts himself saying it is not available for commercial pur..

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When drawing up a backlog, I have several requirements that apply to a great many user stories, i.e. aspects of the application like error handling and feedback. How do I include these (without using an #include directive in each user story )? Should I treat error presentation as a feature, then have user stories for this feature like “system catches exception, and shows info to ..

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Is it better to check for allowed domain values on the frond end or let the database engine handle the domain integrity. For example If you have a data entry form for employee, is it better to check for allowed values on the data entry form before submitting the data to the database assuming network IO is not a big issue. What if there are lots of checks to be performed, would the engine be faster or would checking the value on the front end take the load of the dB e..

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