Re: SOFTWARE BUGS COST BIG BUCKS

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Sorry, I had intended to leave a link to the full
article:

http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20021127S0037

Even this next paragraph screams "Ada", but only
C/C++ gets mentioned in the article:

<QUOTE>

Bugs flow downstream

The NIST study that came out in June found that
more than half of all errors in software are
not discovered early enough in the development
process, but crop up "downstream," when the
package is nearing production, or even later,
in the field. One way of making code writing
more efficient is to integrate and test
software components almost from the onset
of an embedded-software development project.
That's the aim of the Stride Integration and
Test Platform from S2 Technologies
(Cardiff, Calif.).

</QUOTE>

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> [Quoted from "CITO Linkline - November 29, 2002",
> see www.cito.ca]
> 
> <QUOTE>
> 
> 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.
> 
> </QUOTE>
> 
> 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