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Pragmatic Programming

by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

You're probably reading this summary and the accompanying Executive Report because you want to improve software development in your organization. If so, you're in good company: despite our modern methodologies, tools, and languages, some studies suggest we are still shipping software with an average of five bugs per 1,000 lines of code -- the same average as 20 years ago. There has been no significant improvement in the defect density of shipped software in all that time, and developing software remains a risky, expensive business.

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Pragmatic Programming June 2002

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