Re: why administrator refuse to give permission on PLUSTRACE

On 2007-10-29 21:05, Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com> wrote:
>> to write *really* good, efficient programs, a programmer
>> must see its code executing in production. S/he needs
>> to get the feeling, the "haha" experience that only
>> confrontation with reality can provide.
>>
>> Figures and methods are not enough. They are too
>> abstract. Whenever a programmer is disconnected from
>> reality, most often he'll write sub-optimal programs.
>>
>> Note that a development system a never a full
>> simulation of a production system.
>
> That's why you need a pre-production environment ... with the same
> hardware and data volume as your production environment.

The same hardware and data volume isn't the problem. Getting the same users is the problem.

> And there are tons of load-simulation programs available (for example
> Loadrunner, Winrunner etc).

Real users behave very differently from load-simulation programs (unless your load-simulation programs run traces from real users, and even then it's hard to get representative samples).

> However, this is the ideal situation :-)

Indeed.

        hp

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