Complete is a tough word to define for a project. Often, when a developer says something is “complete” or “done” s/he is saying “I’ve coded it.” In fact, this is nowhere near complete.
Here are a minimal set of characteristics to define something as complete:
- Code Written
- Unit Tests Written
- Unit tests running reliably
- Unit tests running independently with no side effects
- Unit test running quickly
- Code integrated with rest of source base
- All unit tests passing after integrating
- Code checked in to repository
- User acceptance tests validated as running (manually OK, automated better)
Before even getting started, it should be clear to the team what “done” or “complete” mean.
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