Developers Should Carry the Banner of Software Standards

Interesting article on Software standards, quality and warranties. Software is no longer a "new" industry and due to that more standards and better defined rules are needed. The problem, as anywhere, is not having better defined rules but following these rules strictly. The problem is also making the Customer understand what is the software product about, as quality and standards compliance.

If software industry will abide more and more by the rules and make these known to the world, then price on software products that do follow more quality standards might be higher, but the quality and warranties of that software will be higher as level. We need more warranties when buying software, but these can be obtained only by setting up straightforward standards.

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