<a href="http://advice.cio.com/10196/battling_software_defects_one_developer_at_a_time?commentpage=1" target="_blank">http://advice.cio.com/10196/battling_software_defects_one_developer_at_a_time?commentpage=1</a><br><br><quote><br>
<br>"The majority of developers are well aware of the problems caused by
their profession, so why do they continue to write faulty software?
There have been many software tools created to detect and combat
software defects. However, in my experience these tools are only used
by developers when they think there is a problem and not on a regular
basis. I would say that the key to increasing software quality is to
penetrate the work flow of the developer."<br><br>"The Developer Mindset<br>
Developers are often under great pressure to produce new features very
rapidly, and I would argue that most of them actually like it that way.
To a real geek it can be exciting to create and deliver new features.
It is not as “sexy” to create a new test or increase code coverage when
compared to creating a new 3-D visualization. I would argue that the
best way to improve software quality is to make the developers want to
test, and to perform the tests automatically as part of the development
process."<br><br>"Going
back to the Therac-25 example,.... the software was designed so that it
was relatively impossible to test it in a clean automatic way."<br><br>"This drives home the point that for software testing to be effective, it must be automatic and part of the process. "<br>
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