Re: [ice-dev] The importance of dogfooding

[Andrew Bennett <bennett.andr@xxxxxxxxx>]

For posterity, I'd like to note that 6/10 of these bugs were actually fixed before they were filed, I just haven't pushed it yet. ;)

The others are in progress though, and I'm dogfooding the project generation tools for the parser generator item too!

Andrew

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jay Jay Billings <jayjaybillings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Everyone,

Do you guys know what 'dogfooding' is? I know I ask about it a lot. Here's a good description:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ultimate-dogfooding-story/

I bring this up because we need to get better about using our own stuff to work the kinks out of it, especially with our upcoming training schedule. (EclipseCon isn't the only thing on the docket.) You guys might have noticed that I just dropped *10* bugs on Andrew for the project generation stuff. Andrew didn't do anything wrong and, in fact, he did everything right. I was just using the tool today and found some ways to make it better. Andrew is already jumping on some of these bugs and fixing them, which will make both his presentation and our tutorial at EclipseCon even better.

In addition to torturing Andrew today, I pulled down the latest version of ICE built last night through the p2 site to use Andrew's stuff and check the JavaFX build bugs.

I would like to encourage you all once again to please eat the dog food we make. Please use ICE, test out each others code and *break the shit out of things.* We are the best testers for ICE and every bug or enhancement we find now saves us a huge amount of effort on the backend.

Jay 

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Jay Jay Billings

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Twitter Handle: @jayjaybillings

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