Re: [extremeprogramming] About placing configuration defaults

Only programmers working on the code need to know where defaults are stored.
I understood the question to be about the defaults, i.e. no value is set,
rather than about the location of the configuration data itself.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 18:35 Steve Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Avi,
>
> Should we really require the customer to have enough insight into the
> internal object architecture of the software to be able to guess where a
> particular configuration choice is stored?
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:25 AM Avi Kessner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that the defaults should be placed closest to where
>> these things change.
>>
>> Some defaults should be at the top level, especially defaults related to
>> the environment. (base urls, api keys etc)
>> Some defaults should be placed where the configuration is being
>> requested, especially arguments that are passed in at runtime. (test file
>> name, number of interactions, other optional args you might have)
>> Wherever someone might be interested in what the default is, try to have
>> them searching for it as little as possible.
>>
>> The less often the value of the config is likely to change, the "higher
>> up", I think it should be.
>>
>> brought to you by the letters A, V, and I
>> and the number 47
>>
>>
>> _._,_
>>
>> 
>

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