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Article: Software bugs cost $59.5B annually. (Tech Briefs).(Statistical Data Included)
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- Accounting Today
- Article date:
- July 22, 2002
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SOFTWARE BUGS COST $59.5B ANNUALLY: Software bugs cost the U.S. economy about $59.5 billion a year, with more than half of that borne by software users..... and the remainder paid by vendors and developers, according to research funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The study also found that about $22 billion of the costs could be eliminated with improved testing infrastructures that provide earlier identification. "Currently, over half of all errors are not found until `downstream' in the development process or during post-sale software use," the NIST said.
Software's growing complexity is the main ...