Sure it is! I'm having the very same problem here where i work.
The questions is: How can we prove it!? If the managers are not aware of it, software quality will never be a reality.
Managers and costumers, where i work, olny care about delivery time and solution cost! So, test and inspect are two more boxes in our process. In other words: More time, more people and more cost!
We are trying to prove that it's not true! Well, it's true. But not the whole true.
Once we deliver a quality software, we'll stop spending money and time with maintenance and customer satisfaction we'll be improved (or created.. some times).
The first thing we intend to do is measure maintenance time and cost (we know that it's a lot). Once we have these numbers, we'll compare them to the cost of implementing the test software processes and show the result to our managers.
We know that it's only a small step. But it's a forward one!;)
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Sure it is! I'm having the very same problem here where i work.
;)
The questions is: How can we prove it!? If the managers are not aware of it, software quality will never be a reality.
Managers and costumers, where i work, olny care about delivery time and solution cost! So, test and inspect are two more boxes in our process. In other words: More time, more people and more cost!
We are trying to prove that it's not true! Well, it's true. But not the whole true.
Once we deliver a quality software, we'll stop spending money and time with maintenance and customer satisfaction we'll be improved (or created.. some times).
The first thing we intend to do is measure maintenance time and cost (we know that it's a lot). Once we have these numbers, we'll compare them to the cost of implementing the test software processes and show the result to our managers.
We know that it's only a small step. But it's a forward one!
Hope that works!