On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:30:14AM -0500, GARY HUBER wrote:
> Regarding "highly technical programming such as an ORION II"; after spending
> twenty years in R&D of Telecom and RF applications, I agree... it takes lots
> of money for highly competent programmer teams to get working a product
> with minimal bugs out of the lab and into the market. See
> http://www.csm-gh.com/projects.htm for examples of beta tests and
> "controlled introductions" with communications industry R&D teams. Seemingly
> no new software product is without bugs or runs as expected outside the R&D
> lab.
The usual metric for programing complex systems is TWO testers per programmer.
Sytems that require 99.999% (the infamous five nines) reliability) often
need THREE to FOUR.
Geoff.
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