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Did you not actually read the article? He also compares quality in terms of defects.

• vinceguidry 13y ago
  A "defect", I'm gathering from the context of the article, has little to do with forward maintainability and seems only to relate to the results of some QA testing heuristic. I think the coding environment being analyzed is already well-defined and the projects being coded are one-offs being sold to clients where maintenance is done through a lucrative support contract. In this setting, a "defect" would be anything keeping the product from shipping. Anything else is overlooked and untracked. It's the software equivalent of shoveling whatever crap you can find into a sausage casing, pricing it like fine steak, then selling your own medicine when it makes them sick.
  • cpncrunch 13y ago
    Code reviews are a much more efficient way of achieving this.