Can't disagree, but computer science is in serious need of less but better and well known, highly reliable software development standards. Something universal

Can't disagree, but computer science is in serious need of less but better and well known, highly reliable software development standards. Something universal that makes us confident enough to say: If you follow this process you'll ALWAYS get the work done in the predicted time frame, and this will not happen: http://ykyuen.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/howprojectreallyworks1.jpg http://ykyuen.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/howprojectreallywo... One of my software engineering professors used to comment often that if architects and structural engineers didn't had those procedures, 9 out of 10 bridges would collapse and there would be no way to guarantee the remaining 10% would be fit to handle x amount of traffic on any given day. Software engineering is a new science, not thousands of years old like bridge building, so we are taken our first baby steps towards that kind of efficiency and reliability. TDD is one of them.