[Dominic Harr]

Read Jeeves' Post 33:

The ASP (VBScript - yuk!) database code was all rewritten in VB.NET - it really wasn't ported so much as used as a model for the ASP.NET version. The Transact-SQL stored procedures required no changes, nor did the existing MS Access reports.

He was very specific. You're incorrect, and must have missed some of the details.

The stored procs and existing reports were not part of the '.NET' app, and didn't require any changes. We're only talking about the form.

You're not even a developer, if I remember, but a tester, yes?

This is plenty of info to give an accurate estimate of time. And a day or two would be *plenty*.

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All this says is that the port over change of the front end didn't require a change on the back. Which is such an absolute no brainer as to be completely unworth mentioning.

They weren't part of the .Net front end. But they WERE and ARE part of the application. I think you're mixing his estimates. He said 8 weeks to write the whole thing, 8 hours to do the port, and guessed 2 weeks to rewrite the front end in Java.

I'm a QA Engineer, that means I also work on specs and do a lot of really boring but highly necessary meetings where stuff like DB design and application scope are discussed. That's why I know that unless you know what type of data you're working with all estimates are 100% BS made up off the top of your head. There's only one person on this board that knows what kind of data Jeeves is working with, his estimate was two weeks.

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I notice as you get deeper and deeper into sticking by your guns and defending your position no matter how pointless your estimate keeps shrinking. First you were at a week and now your down to a day. I'm sure in a few more posts it'll be an hour. Thus proving my point right there, we know so little about this app that you can't even stick to your own estimate.