This is a kind of rant.
With the kind of things I've been seeing in SC patches over the last two weeks, I'm beginning to think that the developers are under project management pressure to take short cuts and deviate from industry standard best practices - like unit testing, and integration testing. Project Managers and Program directors put developers under that kind of pressure at their own peril.
It's pretty apparent that they did not test the latest patch properly before implementing it (3.2.1f, in the PTU). Hop in a ship with a turret, Super Hornet is a good bet. Fire the guns. Note where the top turret is aiming. Bet your target isn't there. Also, the turret on the Super Hornet turns to the rear if you travel in QT all by itself, and back again when you slow down, still doesn't align with the center line, but it might be even further off.
I'm frustrated, not angry about it, I get it. 3.3 needs someone working on it now. But they're not going to get to 3.3 if they can't deliver 3.2.1, and they're not going to progress unless they follow established standards, and the software quality process is allowed to complete. It's up to the leadership at CIG to set this standard, and not whatever they're doing now.
With the kind of things I've been seeing in SC patches over the last two weeks, I'm beginning to think that the developers are under project management pressure to take short cuts and deviate from industry standard best practices - like unit testing, and integration testing. Project Managers and Program directors put developers under that kind of pressure at their own peril.
It's pretty apparent that they did not test the latest patch properly before implementing it (3.2.1f, in the PTU). Hop in a ship with a turret, Super Hornet is a good bet. Fire the guns. Note where the top turret is aiming. Bet your target isn't there. Also, the turret on the Super Hornet turns to the rear if you travel in QT all by itself, and back again when you slow down, still doesn't align with the center line, but it might be even further off.
I'm frustrated, not angry about it, I get it. 3.3 needs someone working on it now. But they're not going to get to 3.3 if they can't deliver 3.2.1, and they're not going to progress unless they follow established standards, and the software quality process is allowed to complete. It's up to the leadership at CIG to set this standard, and not whatever they're doing now.