Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
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Re: Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
#2I'm surprised the overall story of this implementation hasn't had more discussion on HN.
Re: Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
#3I'm surprised the overall story of this implementation hasn't had more discussion on HN.
I think it would quickly decay into an unproductive, unpleasant political debate. I'm quite happy to not be seeing so much of it on here.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it would quickly decay into an unproductive, unpleasant political debate. I'm quite happy to not be seeing so much of it on here.
Weird. That never stops every other topic.
the difference is that there is a government shutdown involved, which is 100% pure politics, as opposed to topics like the NSA, which aren't necessarily politics, at least not obviously.
Re: Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
#6The site was designed for only 50,000 simultaneous users.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-...
Didn't that site cost millions to make?
Wait, is this blog entry trying to sell their own products?
This is a better round-up of stories about the website:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/obama-admini...
Re: Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
#7I'm surprised the overall story of this implementation hasn't had more discussion on HN.
I think it would quickly decay into an unproductive, unpleasant political debate. I'm quite happy to not be seeing so much of it on here.
I agree. However, I'd like to see a postmortem of the events and infrastructure in a few months, when everything's hopefully calmed down.
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#8I'm surprised the overall story of this implementation hasn't had more discussion on HN.
I think it would quickly decay into an unproductive, unpleasant political debate. I'm quite happy to not be seeing so much of it on here.
At first I thought you used "political" to mean opinionated commentary about software development, platforms, and frameworks. And I thought, "bring it on!" And then I realized you meant political. Oh. That.
Re: Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
#9Sure, they could have been prevented. By spending more money. Isn't that always the answer?
Creating a website that can handle, well, nearly the entire country, out of the gate, is not trivial. (Facebook etc got to scale up to that level, they didn't need to do it out of the gate). But it also can be done.
How? Well, you hire real experts in doing this sort of thing. And you give them enough calendar time, and enough billable hours, to do it right. And you don't give them your own 'business requirements' which contradict their expertise on what's neccesary to make it work.
Obviously the government did not do one or more of those things, right?
(I will confess that my opinion is not high of the likely expertise level of typical IT government contracting firms.).
Re: Could Better Testing Practices Have Prevented the Healthcare.gov Defects?
#10The site was designed for only 50,000 simultaneous users. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-... Didn't that site cost millions to make? Wait, is this blog entry trying to sell their own products? This is a better round-up of stories about the website: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/obama-admini...
A bunch of other better articles on it have been posted to HN, but not upvoted enough to make the front page. I too find this surprising, this sort of highly visible large scale web app rollout failure seems like a topic HN would like.
Not sure why this one finally made it, heh.