Re: Ok .. if ?

In article <46ca8e76$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anders Isaksson says...

In my view, quality is a measure of how close something is to its
specification, and how repeatable it's performance is.

So if the specification is rubbish, but the implementation meets the
specification, and if the product consistently and repeatedly and
repeatABly crashes... that constitutes a "quality" product?

Equally a product which doesn't follow the specification (because the
implementors acknowledged shortcomings in the spec) but does the job it
is needed to do but crashes occasionally, although not reliably and you
you can't seem to recreate those crash conditions... that product is of
lower quality than the above described product?

;)

Just another example of why attempting to establish objective criteria
for "quality" doesn't work.


If I have a process relying on VCL, high quality means that the library
behaves consistently, doing exactly what it is documented to do

Ah, the old documentation validation problem.

Should software *really* do what the documentation says, or should it do
what the software is supposed to do?

Documentation can be wrong just as much as code can.

;)


I'm working in the 'physical quality verification' industry, so maybe
I'm biased...

Quality is undoubtedly clearer when it comes to manufacturing.

--
JS
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