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Is Agile a variant of RAD?
Wikipedia says that Agile is a type of "RAD" which I guess is incorrect. From what I know, Agile was developed becasue RAD itself was not that sucessfull in 90'S (too rigid for changes).
Or am I wrong?
(Remark: apparently the Wikipedia article on…
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A simple ways to improve the release quality in RAD environment
A bit of a background here - we are a small team (of 5) of RAD developers responsible for internal software development in a big non-software company. "Internal software" varies from a desktop .NET application using MSSQL server as a backend to…
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What is the relevance of Unit Testing in an "Release early release often" environment?
Over last one year or so, I have driven my team towards the release-early-release-often mode of development (AKA: Rapid Application Development, not Agile). For more information about the manner in which we close the build, see my answer here:
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What is the recommended strategy to deal with a frequently changing database model during development
A lot of projects have a to be determined database model during early development. This could mean that a lot of SQL will have to be rewritten frequently. What is the recommended strategy to deal with this? Especially when you want to develop your…
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Are RAD tools worth the trouble?
I have used RAD tools for windows and web development for many years (primarily Infragistics). I invariably find myself in some situation where I have a very difficult time figuring out what is going on because these controls have layer upon layer…
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Is the following diagrams correct for RAD and Agile methodologies?
I do not know if this would be the right stack exchange site to ask this question but I have been researching on RAD (Rapid Application Development) and Agile methodologies and was trying to find their diagrams but if I google images this, it comes…
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Is Multi-Tenancy a viable option in any Java RAD Frameworks?
I've worked as a Full Stack Java Web Developer for many years now and of all the projects I have worked on two things are true of all of them:
They were all Multi-Tenant applications with one database/one schema architecture
They never utilized a…
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difference between Visual Studio and RADs?
What is the main difference between a Rapid Application Development tool like MonoDev and Visual Studio, is an RAD more focused on one thing? I'm looking to make a web application, are there advantages to using a Web Based Rapid Application…
Ctak
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Is there any well known project to VBify C and make C as RAD language?
I have two questions:
Question #1: Is there any well known project to VBify C? VBify here means to make it as easy as in VB.NET and to make C well supported in IDE just like VB.NET, i.e. with following features: word completion, function's argument…
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what is the correct RAD model diagram
I am trying to use RAD for our school project and i was searching for a model diagram to follow but i found 2
1st is the ladder type found here:
2nd is this one found here:
so i'm really confuse as to which one i should follow here, also how will…
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Does RAD allow you changes or modification after the cutover phase without the need to redo the system?
Like other agile models, that is a close loop where changes after the system development can still be implemented without the need to redo the whole system, is this possible for the RAD model as well?
Since I was told that in the Waterfall model, if…
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