From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ebd5048f971a0224,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-09 12:01:23 PST Message-ID: <3DF4F5DA.2040702@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: SOFTWARE BUGS COST BIG BUCKS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:58:18 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1039463898 198.96.47.195 (Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:58:18 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:58:18 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31597 Date: 2002-12-09T14:58:18-05:00 List-Id: [Quoted from "CITO Linkline - November 29, 2002", see www.cito.ca] SOFTWARE BUGS COST BIG BUCKS A recent study by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology found that software glitches cost the American economy $59.5 billion annually. The study suggests that better testing during software development could reduce that cost by a third, or $22.2 billion per year. According to the study, 80 percent of the cost of developing software goes into discovering and fixing bugs. Because of this, there is an increasing interest in development tools and techniques to both reduce the cost of software development and foster the creation of more robust, reliable code. Of course, the usual response to this is that "there is an increasing interest in development tools and techniques". But the Ada word never gets mentioned. Yet the words "to both reduce the cost of software development and foster the creation of more robust, reliable code" just seems to scream "Ada". * sigh * Notice particularly the statement "80 percent of the cost of developing software goes into discovering and fixing bugs". Again.. I don't need to say it here. Maybe with A#, at least the MicroSofties will become more aware of "other alternatives"? And maybe they'll tell 2 friends.. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg