Software bugs

Terence M. Colligan writes:

Although I thought I understood the importance of quality, and took pride in the quality of the software we produced, I never believed that delivering defect-free software was possible. After all, everyone knows that all software has lots of bugs, right?

Well, no, not necessarily! Certainly, most experiences with today’s software quality are not encouraging. Although few people can name even one piece of software which they use that has no bugs, defect-free software is possible to create. We know it is possible, because we’re doing it.

It started with a single engineer. This engineer was consistently producing work with a defect rate more than one hundred times smaller than our other engineers. She has done so for us for over three years now. During the same time, she has produced three to five times as much code as any other engineer.

I found this so exciting that I determined to find out how she did it, and to see if we could teach our other engineers to achieve the same quality results.

Via James Gregory, Defect-free code.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, June 16th, 2007 at 5:33 am and is filed under Avoiding bugs.