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I realize that you're talking about "quality standards", but depending on the industry, there are plenty of legally mandated software standards out there. You'r
by ghurtado 10y ago
I 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.