Those curious about how to actually test which SoftwareEngineeringMethodology? is truly better (instead of just fighting about it) should read this survey of reproducable results:http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~dalamb/mice.html
Hilarious! I especially liked these two:
- Wiki
- The mice author a page about the maze and cheese, but an argument makes it rather long. Then a refactor-minded Wikizen splits the page into the Maze page and the Cheese page. Subsequent tweaks accidentally lose the link between the two pages. The mice starve.
- Extreme Mice
- The mice all stand up and ask among themselves if any of them is confident how fast he can find the cheese. No mouse is confident enough to estimate, not having seen the maze. Two mice are given an hour to do an experiment to see if they can come to a confident estimate. The first thing the pair does is thinking that perhaps they aren't going to need to go through the maze to get cheese. They're not sure. They ask the customer if he needs the particular cheese that is in the maze. The customer says that any cheese will do. The pair takes some cheese from the fridge and gives it to the customer.
Just in time for Xmas, one AriFeldman
? has ported this test to the mighty MoPhun
? cell-phone game platform:
http://www.mophungames.com/eng/index.php?big=gamepage_center.php&gid=15
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