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No One Cares About Software Quality
When disorder increases in software, programmers call it "software rot."
David Thomas • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Computer scientist and technology blogger John Gruber on quality:
"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."
To be fair, computers — both the desktop kind and various mobile kinds — enable seemingly-impossible things. But it feels frustrating to see the pioneering spirit that originally led to the development of modern computers giving way to uninspired flat interfaces and CRUD SaaS apps. The things you can do are limited to bespokely-implemented features... See more
Feifan Zhou • Page not found • The Blog of Feifan Zhou
Getting software right is hard. It takes knowledge and skills that most young programmers haven’t yet acquired. It requires thought and insight that most programmers don’t take the time to develop. It requires a level of discipline and dedication that most programmers never dreamed they’d need. Mostly, it takes a passion for the craft and the desir
... See moreRobert C. Martin • Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)
Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very tru... See more
Can Duruk • Software will eat software in a remote-first world
Capers Jones, writing first in a series of memoranda and later in a book, offers a penetrating insight, which has been stated by several of my correspondents. "NSB," like most writings at the time, was focused on productivity, the software output per unit of input. Jones says, "No. Focus on quality, and productivity will follow."
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