AW: Power2000

[elis]

Hi,

a client of mine decided not to make use of Power2000 - for diffent
reasons - and buildt it's approach to Y2K revision on the fact, that you
can icentify all date-related items and dependencies starting with the
permanent items in the dictionary. If you include "sysdate" in this
collection and scan all sources for occurrencies of every item (MPEX)
and keep on doing so with every redefinition and temporary item, you end
up with a complete list of issues (item names and sources) to be
revised.

I am aware, that this approach is only practicable in a very well kept
(and / or small) environment, t.ex. no missing sources, one dict per
application, strict naming conventions, etc, but it seemed to work.

Regards
Elisabeth


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> Von: 	l.dyer@mgn.co.uk[SMTP:l.dyer@mgn.co.uk]
> Gesendet: 	Mittwoch, 6. Januar 1999 11:25
> An: 	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Betreff: 	Power2000
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I agree that the pricing of the product is wrong and that it has
> dissuaded
> many who would use it from getting involved. The interface is also
> very
> poor and I would not use it for control of development activity.
> 
> I do, however, think that it is essentially a very useful tool. We
> have
> used it extensively to analyse programs and have used the issues
> generated
> to modify code as necessary.
> 
> We have developed our own work tracking system in Delphi, and have
> exported
> the issues generated by Power2000 to Microsoft Access for query and
> reporting.
> 
> Although we have had to make this extra effort to build a useable
> system, I
> think that without Power2000, or more specifically, the knowledge
> base,
> there is no way to effectively audit what you have checked, and what
> has
> been done, in a sensible & measurable way.
> 
> 2000 projects are as much audits than anything else, I know for sure
> that
> without the use of the knowledge base we would have missed issues, and
> would not have reference documentation to deliver as part of our
> solution.
> The project is not yet complete but the confidence level we get from
> using
> Power2000 is high !
> 
> As we come to the end of the first stage of development, we are
> finding
> that the issues are being properly cross referenced and resolved. It
> would
> be interesting to hear of the methods employed by those who have not
> considered using the tool.
> 
> Lynden
> 
> 
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