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>>First, I was hired to get a handle on this mess. Although I am a FoxPro developer (10 years), I am the Project Manager and SQL DBA for this project.
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>>My guess is the warm body approach to testing. They refuse to provide us with the test plans (although we were billed for them) and the testing results.
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>>I have refoxed the exe that they sent us. Their single developer has NO classes, no naming convention and no inline documentation. The code is very DOS oriented. He created his own Status bar using ascii codes. There are 15 forms with the exact same layout and functionality, just the table name and two field names are different. It looks like he created each form from scatch. He used different memory variable names in each form.
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>>I have a meeting arranged with the consulting company next week to voice my concerns and inform them as to what is expect from them inorder to get their invoices paid.
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>>Thanx for you input.
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>Fred,
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>I remember this. They also wouldn't provide you with their project plan - we decided that they didn't have one. Do you have any control on dropping these guys and starting over or are you in too deep?
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>Renoir

It's that politics thing. I have go to have my ducks in a row. I am compiling volumes of documentation to present. If they cannot counter my documentation than I have a chance to replace them. But I have to have a very string case against them.