Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Quality

Greenspun's 10th rule and the sad state of software quality (github.com)
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Software Quality, Programming Languages, Software Development, Humor
11 points by mivanchev 39 days ago | 0 comments
State Space Explosion: The Reason We Can Never Test Software to Perfection(2021) (concerningquality.com)
Have you ever seen a test suite actually prevent 100% of bugs? With all of the time that we spend testing software, how do bugs still get through? Testing seems ostensibly simple – there are only so many branches in the code, only so many buttons in the UI, only so many edge cases to consider. So what is difficult about testing software?
Software Testing, Software Development, Software Quality
10 points by thunderbong 163 days ago | 1 comments
Why did software become worse lately? (ycombinator.com)
Software Development, User Experience, Technology, Software Quality
19 points by headsnap_io 434 days ago | 41 comments