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Wednesday, July 03, 2002
http://idg.net/ic_879970_1794_9-10000.html Software bugs cost $59.5 billion a year, study says Paul Krill SOFTWARE BUGS COST the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion per year, or 0.6 percent of the gross domestic product, according to a newly released study by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In a statement released on Friday, NIST said more than half the costs are borne by software users and the remainder by software developers and vendors. Additionally, the study found that although errors cannot be removed, more than a third of the costs, or an estimated $22.2 billion, could be eliminated by improved testing that enables earlier and more effective identification and removal of defects....
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