APPENDIX A. Fifty Years of Software: Key Principles for Quality
© IEEE, 2003. Reprinted with permission of the IEEE. James A. Whittaker and Jeffrey M. Voas
Software quality is no better today than it was decades ago. In some cases, it’s worse. Can a look at the past help us change the future for the better?
Five decades of software development have come and gone, and defective software is the norm; high quality, the exception. From the Millennium Bug to holes in network security, through a litany of catastrophic software defects in between: You have to look back and wonder why we still don’t have general-purpose technologies that let all programmers ...
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