Timeline for How do people define the minimum hardware requirements for software?
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| Jan 24, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | user40980 | @Deduplicator I could mention an recent employer that had devs on Dell 280s (flashbacks of running eclipse and jboss on there). Sure, that was the target platform too - but they only ran IE. | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 15:14 | comment | added | Deduplicator | Just for thought, dev systems should normally be significantly beefier. Which means the developer seeing it barely crawls on his setup is unlikely to conclude the job's done. Unless, naturally, management was stupidly stingy. | |
| Jan 22, 2013 at 22:29 | vote | accept | Byron | ||
| Dec 20, 2012 at 20:23 | history | edited | user40980 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Add performance |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 20:16 | comment | added | Steven Evers | +1: Very good answer. It might also help to note that performance testing the software often indicates the hardware requirements. That is, it's less about "does it run" and more about looking at the perf requirements. If there is a requirement that an operation o takes < time t to complete, then whatever hardware combination that satisfies that goal becomes the min spec. | |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 17:32 | history | edited | user40980 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Included the guess approach. |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 15:34 | comment | added | user53019 | Solid answer. It wouldn't hurt to add that some of the time it's simply a matter of throwing a metaphorical dart at the wall and coming up with a guess. It can definitely be a very subjective process. | |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 15:24 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 | minor typo correction |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 15:21 | history | answered | user40980 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |