{"id":277,"date":"2008-01-07T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T02:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/archives\/277"},"modified":"2017-12-18T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:28:48","slug":"whats-wrong-with-90-of-software-written-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/whats-wrong-with-90-of-software-written-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with 90% of software written today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a programmer but I do know that, just like any other profession, there are good programmers and there are bad programmers. Writing software must not be an easy task or else multi-billion dollar companies like Microsoft would have written a browser that is secure, reliable and bug-free and Apple wouldn’t have to deal with 69 security holes in Mac OS X in less than 3 months. I just read an article about what’s wrong with the software written today. Perhaps the software developers are in a better position than me to to comment on the author’s take on this subject.<\/p>\n

Here are a few excerpts from an article written by Shayne Nelson called What’s wrong with 90% of software written today?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the early seventies, industry studies revealed that eighty-five percent of all software development efforts went into just one area: maintenance. You can put that figure another way: programmers spend six to seven times as much fixing and modifying software as they do designing and building it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Since most programmers instinctively (and justifiably) hate maintenance, that means that we are looking at a profession where the practitioners spend most of their day doing something they dislike. What a sad observation, and what a sad profession.<\/p>\n

Things are always changing in a company, and therefore the company’s software is going to require changes, lots of them. This is inevitable. The question remains: why does the average company have to spend six-sevenths of its effort and programming manpower and time on fixing stuff rather than building it?<\/p>\n

Asking that key question makes the issue (and the right answer) far more obvious. The answer is, BAD ORIGINAL DESIGN.<\/p>\n

That’s right. Most software on earth is written with virtually no features incorporated to make debugging and maintenance much easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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