The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

Acknowledgments

After many years of studying how and why people make mistakes (and making plenty of them ourselves), we realize how common it is for humans to make errors of omission. It’s our hope that we have successfully prevented any errors of omission in this section. This book stems primarily from the work of the Microsoft Windows Defect Prevention team, and therefore the first thanks must go to Darren Muir, General Manager of Windows Core Test, for having the vision and foresight to fund our efforts, and to his boss at the time of our inception, Brian Valentine, Vice President of Windows Core Operating System Division, for his confidence in this work, his faith in our ideas, and for our day jobs. None of this would be possible without ...