5. Software Development Standards
Vague
- Prove that your software only does "good things"
- Disclaimers
- Profitable to organization that publishes them
- Used iff mandated
- Return-on-investment is questionable
- Thwart intellectual creativity
- Anti-competitive, protectionist legislation
- Paperwork
- 2167A: 400 English words per Ada code statement [Capers Jones]
- Cannot be adequately tested for compliance
Take 8-15 years to write
- "Old news" before being ratified