Yesterday I was listening an Arcast with title "Writing zero defect software" from http://www.skyscrapr.net/blogs/arcasts/default.aspx?ID=340. Dr. Neil talks about attitude (psychological part) of developer, how to tackle when bug is found, quality, TDD and discoverability of feature. He says that our software development should be done in such way that it should be always ready for shipped (may not be always with all feature, a typical agile value). He also explained one interesting fact that “why developer go for complex solution” and explanation seems to be a big truth. He says that we should have feeling of pride whatever piece of code we deliver and that feeling can only come if we strive to ship zero defect software. He is really concerned about fact our expectation for software are very low, clients always expect that software can not be developed without bugs and bugs are inevitable. He says that we need to set our standard high from software development industry and it should be on par with other industry like Car, Aero plane manufacture.
I am not sure whether we can really make “Zero defect software” or not but, if we implement his idea in our day to day activities of software development then we can definitely reduce the number of bugs in our system drastically. So, I would request you to listen the Arcast mentioned in above link.
