The Business Case for Quality

February 13th, 2009

When I started what eventually became MetaComet systems back in 1998, I wrote most of the code for the Royalty Tracker(r) System myself. While I would always test my work, it is a well known heuristic that software engineers make the worst quality control people. They have subconscious biases which prevent them from hitting the problems.

I continued to develop code up until early 2007. By this point we had grown to a 7 person company with several software engineers and some of the most respected media companies as customers. And while we had implemented some formal testing practices, we did not have a dedicated quality control program.