Problem #7: Training Personnel
Al Davis's words in his farewell letter as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software [July 1998]
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- "Too much of the core of many computer science degrees hinges upon achieving efficiency of computing resources (time, memory, and so on) that are no longer in short supply, and on building things that most practitioners no longer build. Too little time is devoted to producing reliable, maintainable, quality software."
Never hired a single undergraduate CS major that knew anything about software testing or had studied it. Similar results for MS-CS candidates [RST HR data]