Software quality, for the most part, sucks. It still sucks, seventy-five yearssince the advent of the programmable computer. Software bugs are aconstant fact of life, thanks to the ubiquity of software and the ubiquity ofsoftware bugs. Sometimes the bugs cost millions of dollars or kill people.Why is the reaction so muted? Rather than just accept software bugs asunavoidable, let’s ask the obvious question: Given that manufacturing isable to achieve six sigma levels of quality—i.e., only three defective itemsper million manufactured—why does software quality still suck? In thiswebinar, Rex will address some of the real barriers to achieving six sigmaquality in software, while at the same time holding software engineering asa profession accountable for not doing nearly as much as we can.