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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public From: Joachim Durchholz Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/03/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229876934 Sender: Joachim Durchholz References: Organization: ccn - computer consultant network GmbH Reply-To: joachim.durchholz@munich.netsurf.de Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.tech Date: 1997-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Pressure to meet a deadline should never result in the technial folks > involved being willing to cut corners and deliver code with bugs. My experience with customers has been that nothing mattered except getting the system delivered. In the specific projects I'm working on it's even sensible that way. It is business programming with non-critical data, like sales personnel reports and similar stuff. The cost to get the bugs out of the system can surpass the cost of experiencing an occasional bug. Depending on the type of bug, of course. I'm aware of one case where a report got lost due to a bug in badly-designed and less-than-thoroughly-tested software. The company may have lost a contract worth a few million ("may" because the company might not have gotten it anyway). Regards, Joachim