Analysis & Design Factor In Software Development

During early acedamic days in university, we all (me and all the persons whom I know) used to start developing the project without the necessary analysis and design. The thing that we have in our mind in those days were that we would waste our time if we don't start the development as early as possible. With the passage of time, we studied various courses of core computer sciences including the course of software engineering. In software engineering course, we studied various models of software development. These models have their own merits and de-merits but the main emphasis of all the models is that do the necessary analysis and desing first before starting development because it is very easy and time effective to fix the minor errors but very difficult and time consuming to almost re-code all the project. Our early concept of wasting time seems incorrect and rightly so. I myself really try mylevel best to adopt the increamental model of software development in my last two term projects and successful to a certain level. Without the necessary analysis and design, start of writing code seems feasible for a student project to some extent but quite infeasible for a professional level project where quality and time is an important factor. Just consider the scenario that a developer is developing ASP pages referring from FS. After few days, to implement a certain functionality not mentioned in FS, he has to develop his own understanding first and then re-think whole things so to avoid errors. The most worst case would be resulted if after unit testing, he has been asked to exclude that additional functionality. This all would result if analysis and desing wasn't conducted completely. At professional level, it should be avoided not only to increase the quality but also the productivity and throughput of the developers.

Matriculation Result!

Few days back, Lahore Board has declared the matriculation result. I just come to know that overall first position has been captured by a girl. Thats not so surprising to me as the girls are really very brilliant for the last 5-6 years. The good news that surprised me is that that girl belongs to my old school. When I did my matriculation years back, our batch was the third one from the school that appeared in the board exams. I got third position in my school. Our batch's overall result was 99%. (The girls wing result was 100% and boys wing result was 98%). Keeping in mind that it was the third batch from school, it was a remarkable performance. Our batch had been considered the best for many years in the school.

Some Quotes...

The strong man is not a good wrestler;
the strong man is only the one who controls himself
when he is angry.(Muhammad PBUH)

Someone once asked me
"why do you always insist on taking the hard road"?
and I replied
"why do you assume I see two raods"?

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.
It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

A life with love will have some thorns
but a life without love will have no roses.

Enjoy your life today because
yesterday has gone
and tommorrow may never come.

If I am out of time and I could pick one day,
one moment and keep it new,
of all of the days I have lived
I would pick the day I met you.

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.(Albert Einstein)

It is not that I am afraid to die,
it is that if I die,
who will love you as I do.

There are things that are known,
and things that are unknown,
and in between,
there are doors.

Its Really Too Hot And Humid!

Few weeks back, when I had to come to Islamabad from Lahore, I went to Daewoo terminal in Lahore. I used to get my seat reserved a day before as to avoid any inconvenience. That day, when I reached Daewoo terminal, there was more people than my expectation. Perhaps due to the reason that vacations had been started in schools, so, most of the people were moving towards Islamabad or beyond Islamabad to northern areas away from the hot and humid weather of Lahore. It seemed that all the people of Lahore are going to Islamabad. Anyways, I went to waiting lounge and wait for the time to get the ticket. My seat is reserved in the ordinary luxury bus and scheduled to depart from Lahore at 11:30. One VIP bus was scheduled at 11:00 and its destination was also Islamabad. (The fare of VIP bus was more than the fare of luxury bus.) When I reached at the counter to purchase the ticket, I saw one long queue and many small queues around it. I stood at the end of long queue. After some time, I came to know that VIP bus that had to go at 11:00 got some problem and now the Daewoo administration arranged another bus for them but that replacement bus is only luxury so the extra fare to each passenger must be refunded. That was the cause of rush there. I also got my ticket and went to the bus. There were two buses labeled Lahore to Islamabad. One was going at 11:30 and other was scheduled at 11:35. My bus was going at 11:35. When I entered the bus, its great surprise to me that its was VIP bus and had only 37 seats. Luxury bus contains 45 seats. 45 tickets had been issued and passengers having seat numbers from 38-45 were looking at each other. What happened to those, I don't know because then the bus started its journey but one thing for sure that if Daewoo administration thought not for long but just for a moment before taking any step that the bus scheduled at 11:30 was ordinary and they let it go according to the schedule and next bus at 11:35 was VIP and it could be an easy replacement for all the passengers who had taken VIP bus tickets. No need for refund and they also allowed the ticket holders of luxury bus to travel in the VIP. Its really too hot and humid in Lahore nowadays and even personals in Daewoo administration couldn’t escape from that.

My Graduation Degree Is Completed!

Today morning, I sign in to MSN messenger and one of my friends is online. He is in Kuwait and his working shift is night. He congrats me of the result and also told me the aggregate percentage. On asking, he told me that yesterday evening, the result for the 9th term has been declared and some one also sent a mail on uet-cs. I hadn't checked the mail since Saturday morning. I log in to UET website and view my detailed marks. I got 85.50% marks in this final term and overall percentage aggregates to 81.91%. I am just short of 3 marks from the first position and hence once again during my stay in UET for the graduation, I got second position but in spite of all this, it’s great news for me that my degree is completed and with such a remarkable percentage (in my view). Thanks to Allah Almighty. It’s all with the Help and Blessing of Allah Almighty and after that the prayers of my parents.

At Last! We Succeed

Since 04:00 PM, we were trying to reserve our seats in Daewoo. We have four contact numbers of Daewoo booking office in Rawalpindi/Islamabad. One is UAN number and other three are PTCL land lines. Whenever any of the number is dialed, we were replied either by busy tone or ringing tone and no third case. At last, just few moments back, I tried again. First of all, I tried the UAN number but no success. Then, I tried one of the PTCL number. The ring is on and to my surprise, the phone has been attended. I asked for the reservation of three seats. One for me and other two for my colleagues and got the reservation. Just for the reservation of three seats, we have to keep our phone busy for eight hours but a very important moral: Try Try Again.

First Post!

Today, I have created my account on this site. Before this, I used my MSN space for blogging. First of all, I customized various settings and spent a lot of time in doing that but still not satisfied with the current display settings. Then, I planned to perform this tedious activity on some later stage. For time being, its fine and enough.