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The tragedy is that, with non-critical software that can't kill anyone, users are happy with most bugs most of the time. Therefore we will never have legal qual
by mojuba 10y ago
The tragedy is that, with non-critical software that can't kill anyone, users are happy with most bugs most of the time. Therefore we will never have legal quality standards for most types of software.
- ghurtado 10y agoI realize that you're talking about "quality standards", but depending on the industry, there are plenty of legally mandated software standards out there. You're likely to run into some of them if you haven't already: - 508 / ADA compliance - HIPAA - AICC / SCORM / cmi5 - PCI / DSS
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoSome of those are not very good i.e. not quality standards. Is there a quality standard for quality standards or does the buck stop there?
- ghurtado 10y agoWell, that's just the thing. Whether (we) programmers like it or not, the only relevant measure of quality in a program is whether it does the thing that the user needs it to do. In other words, "functional standards" is the only type of quality standards that you could ever expect to have for software. Things like code quality and inner loop optimization are largely irrelevant for the people who are using the software.