If you ever attended any conference that discusses about software, especially those on software testing, you would’ve heard often about how more than 70% of software projects undertaken around the world are a failure, how immature our industry is with processes and all those oft-repeated statements. I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard them too often. In fact, all of the testing conferences I’ve attended so far (not too many, though) started with some well-known speaker announcing this over the microphone in his keynote address, which unmistakably leaves everybody around in awe. Suddenly, everybody will wake up and be ‘enlightened’ about the whole thing, as if from today, they are going to work towards a change over in the software world.
I’ve always pooh-poohed whenever I heard such things, not because I know anything better, but I hate such ‘research surveys’ and sympathize those who spread such news and even more with those who truly believe such news. Today, I happened to see this article written up by an apparently well-known personality (though, I’ve read only a few of him), which basically is along the same line as my apprehensions about this subject. It goes on to ‘prove’ that all that is said about software crisis is just crap. Read on…Anyway, I am just happy to see that my views are not entirely untrue and unsupported by all in our industry...
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