Because making software is like oneoff or small batch production as opposed to a traditional production line.
Engineering practices vary wildly depending on what type of engineering you are doing.
That's one of the problems they had when developing BS5750 and ISO9000 , "where do you hang the defect ticket" was one of the areas where they had problems - that was what the head of the BSI software quality project told me back when he was auditing a project I worked on ack in the 80's.
Engineering practices vary wildly depending on what type of engineering you are doing.
That's one of the problems they had when developing BS5750 and ISO9000 , "where do you hang the defect ticket" was one of the areas where they had problems - that was what the head of the BSI software quality project told me back when he was auditing a project I worked on ack in the 80's.