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Khaled El Emam, University of Ottawa, on the ROI of Code Quality by jcannon on July 14, 2006 03:01PM

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 Quality

Related 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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  1. ooto.info said:

    Interesting post on Port25

    posted at 04:02PM 07/20/2006
  2. La masa, el ladrillo, la bota, el bocadillo... said:

    Siempre he sostenido que la calidad del software empieza por la calidad del c&amp;oacute;digo fuente. Basta

    posted at 03:10PM 09/10/2006
  3. Port 25 said:

    There is a buzz word floating out there – “business readiness”. It seems that the marketing teams here at Microsoft are trying to capture something important to organizations and people that are responsible for selecting, deploying and maintaining software

    posted at 03:27PM 10/12/2006
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