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Q: Who uses Iron Speed Designer?
A: The customer case studies on our website cover applications from surgery scheduling
to e-commerce. Many are internally facing applications, while others are externally facing.
You’ll even see several software products. Check out our partial customer list and you’ll
see corporate IT groups, manufacturers, financial institutions, consultants and product developers.
Learn more...
Q: Won’t I spend as much time learning Iron Speed Designer as I will save by using it? What’s the
learning curve like?
A: Most of our customers experience no difficulty learning Iron Speed Designer. In fact,
many report application maintenance is easier because generated applications
have the same structure — anyone on your team can maintain an application created by
anyone else. Learning Iron Speed Designer takes far less time than hand-coding the portion generated
by Iron Speed Designer. You may accelerate your understanding of intermediate and advanced topics by
attending Iron Speed training. Learn more...
Q: How hard is it to customize generated pages?
A: The spreadsheet-like Quick Layout editor is very easy to use. Just drag and drop to rearrange
controls as you would in a spreadsheet. You can also drag databound controls from the toolbox
onto the spreadsheet to add additional fields — there's nothing extra to hook up!
Q: How maintainable is the code generated by Iron Speed Designer? How hard is it to update
my applications when you come out with a new release?
A: Generally, new releases of Iron Speed Designer leave your existing pages and code untouched, so you
don't have to worry about your application changing without your knowledge. Only when you
modify a specific page is it regenerated in the new release.
Q: Iron Speed Designer provides C/R/U/D functionality but doesn’t generate my business logic.
Why should I use Iron Speed Designer?
A: Iron Speed Designer does not generate business logic; it's not a 4GL. However, in our
experience, the surrounding create / retrieve / update / delete functionality comprises over
80 percent of most applications, so Iron Speed Designer provides a significant advantage by eliminating
this infrastructure code. Why hand-code 100 percent of an application when you can
hand-code just 20 percent?
Moreover, Iron Speed Designer generates a class architecture upon which business logic and processes
can be built, saving you the time of designing and refining your own architecture.
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Q: I’m worried I can't sufficiently test applications with code I don’t fully
understand. How difficult is it to test applications generated by Iron Speed Designer?
A: Code generated by Iron Speed Designer is extremely well tested because it benefits from both
Iron Speed’s QA process and thousands of other developers who use and test code generated by
Iron Speed Designer. Using well-tested generated code reduces your overall testing load, so you can
focus on testing your application's custom business logic.
Q: I use an iterative development process but Iron Speed Designer uses a database-driven
process. What if my database schema is evolving? How will Iron Speed Designer work with my
development style?
A: Iron Speed Designer is ideal for environments where end-user requirements shift frequently.
Quickly modify and regenerate your application when end-user requirements change.
Iron Speed Designer includes built-in tools for synchronizing your application with an updated database schema.
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