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From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (George X. Kambic, Allen-Bradley Inc.)
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Date: 23 May 91 13:27:26 GMT
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In article <1991May15.223135.12381@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick) writes:
> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
[...]
> The modern approach, following Taguchi, Deming, and company, has (in
> principle) abandoned a measurement (cost of quality) and replaced it
> with a system of faith that asserts that increased quality is *always*
> cost-effective.  In this case, the faith has worked better than the
> metric.
The system of faith is what software engineering has been operating on 
all along.  Even Deming et. al. need some measurement.  You cannot tell 
where you are going on faith alone.

GXKambic
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