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The Economics of Software Quality Capers Jones, Jitendra Subramanyam, Olivier Bonsignour
Publisher: Addison-Wesley

The Economics of Software Quality. Capers Jones is vice president and CTO of Namcook Analytics LLC. The creation of Agitator was motivated by my experience and my belief that the best way to improve software quality and reduce development costs is to implement a developer/unit testing program. I have data on the comparative costs of every combination of pre-test inspections, static analysis, and testing. This is a good synthesis of the current state of software quality, so I just did a summary of the main points, as an opportunity to ask Capers some questions. The Economics of Software Quality provides solutions to quantify software quality, helping you to manage software development and maintenance. There is no reason to believe that this regulatory-induced equilibrium outcome would be economically superior to that chosen voluntarily in a competitive market, especially once these other offsetting price and quality adjustments occur. Should jump at this opportunity, because I am convinced that the best way to improve both software quality and the economics of software development in general is to give developers the responsibility for delivering high-quality, reusable, unit tests along with their code. Just another WordPress.com site. Your question reflects a common problem – most companies don't measure well enough to understand quality economics. You can find data in most of my books, and a lot of data in my most recent book The Economics of Software Quality, Addison Wesley, 2011.