Poor Software Quality Costs US $2.08tn - Infosecurity Magazine
Poor-quality software cost America over $2tn last year, according to a new report by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ). The "Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2020 Report," which was co-sponsored by American software company Synopsys, found that the cost of poor software quality (CPSQ) in the US in 2020 was approximately $2.08tn. Researchers looked at poor software quality resulting from software failures, unsuccessful development projects, legacy system problems, technical debt, and cybercrime enabled by exploitable weaknesses and vulnerabilities in softwar...