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A recent discussion at JavaLobby [1] cited the following sources of low quality of software: "According to the findings of the survey, the quality of today’s software is affected by the increasingly complex nature of code, cause by geographically distributed teams, outsourcing, legacy code, the use of open source code and the emergence of multi-threaded applications..."
My limited experience is that the quality of software is affected not by complexity of software but by the organizations themselves. Suboptimal processes, politics, simply under-qualified people and so on. This in turn produces crappy products, but you cannot fix it with static code analysis.
I think the reason is that the bang for the buck is so enormous that orgs can do just fine even being suboptimal, as compared to other fields.
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