[CLUE-Talk] Software quality

[B O'Fallon]

John Kottal wrote:

> There were only two or three shops in the world that were considered Level 5 as
> recent as 3 years ago (one in NASA dealing with shuttle flight software and one
> dealing with electric power plant operation --- and maybe one other --- in India).
>

If you can believe salon.com as a source (this was from one of the listed websites):

India has 22 of the 38 software companies around the world that have adopted his
methodology and are certified to have met the Software Engineering Institute's
highest -- "Level 5" -- standards for quality. (Four American companies, including
Perot Systems and Citicorp, own Level 5 subsidiaries in India.) Last year, the Indian
government and several Indian companies founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality
Institute in Chennai, in South India, where a contract software    development firm
called Advanced Information Systems is churning out software with just 0.05 defects
per 1,000 lines of code -- "better than the space shuttle's software," Pfaffenberger
says -- and has, as a result, doubled its profits.

BOF