Conclusion
Software quality is a combination of perceived quality based on the likelihood of a customer encountering a defect and security defects, which are maliciously sought. You can’t test a significant percentage of the functionality of a software product, so processes based on that assumption can give a deceptive sense of quality.
The process of software development consists of a multitude of transformations from the original vision into the final product. Many of the steps in this process have manual artifacts that can’t be automatically verified; software development depends a lot on human verification processes (reviews). Because any human process includes a possibility of error, verification must be against something—another translation. ...
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