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NIST Estimates Sloppy Coding Costs $60 Billion/Year

Posted by timothy on from the numerical-imperative dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "Computerworld is reporting on a government study just released that software bugs are costing the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion each year, with more than half of the cost borne by end users and the remainder by developers and vendors. Better testing could allegedly cut that by one-third."

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  1. Obvious joke by Violet+Null · · Score: 5, Funny

    It originally only cost the economy $6 a year, but there was an unfortunate rounding error in the code that figured out the total cost...

  2. Offset Piracy? by cloudscout · · Score: 5, Funny

    So does this $60 billion offset the amount of money that the software industry claims they lose to software pirates?

    How much money do software pirates lose by using illegal copies of sloppily coded software?

  3. As a game developer... by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much money do MY bugs cost? Do fatal bugs in my code actually RETURN productivity to the workforce? Do bugs in my code actually make money for the US economy?

  4. Back of the envelope calculation by washirv · · Score: 5, Funny

    US Population: approx 0.25Bn
    Cost of Windows XP: $200
    Total cost: $50Bn
    Yeah sounds about right