Eng Chong Lim

After a quarter of a million lines of code had been written, the application was ready for testing. The testers, however, came back with their results alleging poor application quality. A plan had to be developed and executed quickly to address this feedback. However, the eleven-person development team was confronted with further challenges: code had to be revised due to an oversight regarding requirements and application issues, new functionalities had to be added resulting from change requests, and the finished product had to be delivered soon. The resulting code flux, nonetheless, would likely compound the quality perception problem even further. The above scenario illustrated that, in addition to people and technology, a third element to successful application develo... (more)