Quality is now development Job One

摘要

Quality, not time, has become the critical unit of measure in software development. Microsoft Corp. became a poster child for that doctrine when it announced Nov. 29 that it would start releasing Vista previews based on meeting quality milestones rather than heaving to monthly dates. The quest-for-quality philosophy had been articulated one week earlier, however, during a roundtable discussion of application life-cycle quality goals and practices convened by eWeek Labs. The group comprised representatives from quality-tool vendors, platform provider and tool-maker Microsoft, and customers of those vendors.