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Subject:Re: What do you call your examples? From:Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca> To:Sarah Bouchier <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:12:56 -0400 (EDT)
--- Sarah Bouchier <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com> wrote:
> I don't know what to name the
> examples.
This is for user names in screen examples. Perhaps it
could be adapted to work for company names. It's very
square (as in L7) and dull, but it alleviated a number
of concerns (arising from the nature of the product
and the business) that would be too lengthy to get
into here
For a product I used to work on: normal human first
name + number (written as words). For example, Sally
Six (obviously, if you add 63 to that you'll offend
someone, but that's easy enough to avoid; "four" might
have been tricky, though we never heard anything).
In the system I was writing about, we had different
categories of users, and if more than one appeared on
a given screen, they couldn't have the same last name.
Therefore, we assigned numeric ranges to each user
type.
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