Buggy code, fragile legacy systems, ill-conceived projects cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020
Software quality crisis made worse by developer shortage, report claims Share Copy Shoddy software cost the US an estimated $2.08tr in 2020, according to the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ). That's down slightly from a revised 2018 total of $2.1tr but still isn't anything to brag about. In its 2020 report, The Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US, the Massachusetts-based standards group co-founded by the non-profit Object Management Group and Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI), identifies three major cost sinkholes. Unsuccessful I...