Is it possible to build software free of defects?
By Florence OlsenMar 08, 1999 CHANTILLY, Va. Software quality experts are a demanding bunch. They see the nation s infrastructure being put at risk by poor software quality and they are not even talking about year 2000 vulnerabilities. But even the experts at the International Software Assurance Certification Conference here last week could not reach a consensus on the root cause of poor quality. We re building systems out of [software] components that are built in a slipshod manner, said Gary McGraw, vice president of business development for Reliable Software Technologies Corp. of Sterling, Va. Venture capital rather than technology is driving software development in this country, said Marcus Ranum, chief executive officer of Network Flight Recorder Inc., an Internet security company in Woodbine, Md. Organizational neglect of software processes exceeds the poor workmanship of individual programmers as a source of errors, said Don O Neill, founder of the National Software Quality Expe
By Florence OlsenMar 08, 1999 CHANTILLY, Va. Software quality experts are a demanding bunch. They see the nation s infrastructure being put at risk by poor software quality and they are not even talking about year 2000 vulnerabilities. But even the experts at the International Software Assurance Certification Conference here last week could not reach a consensus on the root cause of poor quality. We re building systems out of [software] components that are built in a slipshod manner, said Gary McGraw, vice president of business development for Reliable Software Technologies Corp. of Sterling, Va. Venture capital rather than technology is driving software development in this country, said Marcus Ranum, chief executive officer of Network Flight Recorder Inc., an Internet security company in Woodbine, Md. Organizational neglect of software processes exceeds the poor workmanship of individual programmers as a source of errors, said Don O Neill, founder of the National Software Quality Expe
