Anandeep interviews Khaled El Emam, Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Khaled's research looks very deeply at how bugs and software defects introduced in software development impact an organization after purchase and deployment. His assertion, the more bugs and issues in deployed software, the more downtime, support and maintenace costs are incurred post-purchase. Thus, evaluating code quality upfront can be a helpful tool in predicting ROI. The less bugs, the less code maintenance. Khaled's research looks at both commercial and open source software development projects and has uncovered some interesting insights.
Video: Khaled El Emam, University of Ottawa, on the ROI of Code QualityRelated Links:
ROI From Software Quality - Samples from Khaled's Book
Check out ROI From Software Quality (Amazon)
Learn more about Khaled El Eman (Short Bio)
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