Re:The Therac-25 Incident
by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:23AM
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It really is funny how any discussion of improving software quality becomes unpopular, here.
Not only here. Everyone wants to use a quality products, but no almost one is committed to deliver quality products/services.
No one is working on quality, everyone works on new features. There is usually no incentive to increase quality, to improve speed, performance, etc.
Good developers are a necessary ingredient of a much larger recipe.
People think that a good process means you can toss in crap developers, or that great developers mean that you can have a bad process.
In my experience, I worked for a 100-year-old Japanese engineering company that had a decades-long culture of Quality. People stayed at that company for their entire career, and most of them were top-shelf people. They had entire business units, dedicated to process improvement and QA.
It was a combination of good talent, good process, and good culture. If any one of them sucks, so does the product.