Re: Coding Standards: Response to Roger L. Cauvin

Responding to Kk_oop...

Then it all came to a crashing halt, because it
ends up the company did not want to be held accountable for the
standards described within.


I am curious.  What didn't they want to be accountable for?

If they just didn't want to support the infrastructure of enforcing the standard, then I would say it is time to start looking for another job. Any company that cavalier about quality is still in the Software Dark Ages.

If it is a legal liability issue, it seems to me that is backwards. Without a standard any failure is potentially the responsibility of the company for not acting to prevent it. But the existence of a standard is evidence of a proactive, due diligence attempt to prevent the failure (assuming the failure results from nonconformance). I would expect that to improve its legal position since the failure can then be attributed to serendipitous individual human frailty rather than systemic corporate indifference (where the Big Buck damage awards live).


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