Feedback: Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0

Feedback on: Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0

Sent by Ben Allen on November 14, 1998 at 15:28:11: - feedback #50

Noticed that you listed the price of InterDev at $500. Maybe you should add a note that students (in the UK at least) can get InterDev, along with Visual Basic, Visual C++ and J++, and FoxPro on a student license for about Ł130.

Ben

Sent by Martin Webb on November 20, 1998 at 09:27:06: - feedback #51

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Rapid Application Development gives you tools to do what you want faster.
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This isn't RAD. RAD is a development "technique". You don't need tools to use RAD.

RAD is different to the typical Waterfall development lifecycle - where one phase of developmemt follows another in sequence.
With RAD there are many smaller iterations through all or some of the development stages, in which each iterations improves on the previous until you have a product that satisfies the requirements.

RAD development includes things such as:

RAD workshops.
Timeboxing.
Clean rooms
MOSCOW - must have, should have, would have.

IDE tools can assist with the "rapid" development of applications - but this is different to RAD.