How To Not Die By A Thousand Cuts. Or, How To Think About Software Quality. [ ↓ toc ] Published: 2022-01-20 Updated: 2023-03-10 Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products. Contents What is the nature of software products? Whom to hold responsible for Software Quality Assurance? Why? Is it different for different kinds of products? How to destroy Quality? How to create Quality? The first skill is to learn to suffer constructively. Caveats, mea culpa, etc. First off, what even is Quality? All things emerge, change, and die. I think Quality is the experience of the process. The idea of Good Quality essentially boils down to performing the process with grace, and leaving the place better than we found it. Further, the process of emergence and change—i.e. living—is also the process of dying.…