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Application Quality vs Code Quality

There is a great article written by Olivier Bonsignour and Dr. Bill Curtis about the difference between Application Quality and Software Quality. It is a great read and especially the parts where they talk about why modern applications are so difficult to maintain quality - I love the part where they talk about a good developer who can program in Java/.NET not being an expert with database programming and causing errors that come back to bite later.

I have seen this happen numerous times

Metrics in Software development process

It continues to amaze me how difficult it is to get any sort of standard metrics around the software development process. And come to think of it, that should be surprising because we have measures to define even Cheese and Beef - why not software - the most analytical and logical of human activities.

Most metrics used to measure the software development process range from the truly un-interesting like 000's of lines of code to not-that-informative such as defect seepage and defect density.