Is it even possible to calculate software cost using Man-months?  How far is that from the truth? Why software production is different than any other kind of production?  What is the impact of team size and milestones over schedule?

Is it cheaper to hire greenhorns for less or to bet on people with experience? Can performance vary so badly? Does it make sense to pay double for a pro?

What happened with programming languages after 50 years? How far did we go from 1958? Why programmers don’t like moving to different language and are so used to assign magical features to some programming languages. What will be the next move, next great programming language?

Should testers and QAs write code? Isn’t it developers job? If testers write code will they remain focused on end user part? What is the trend and what is required nowdays from testers? Why Agile approach seems to be so technically demanding?

Why we create vast amount  of unsuccessful test cases? If one test case doesn’t reveal defects isn’t it net lost to move it forward? Why managers don’t advertise refactoring of the test cases? Why Developers can’t produce deliverables  perfectly the very first time but testers should? How to deal with repeating steps in test cases? Why is traceability matrix a must for every project. How do you know which part of software is covered properly and which is not?

What is pairwise testing? Why is so neglected and underestimated in teams? Why testers underestimate input data with no reason? Who should force the culture and provide golden data for the projects?

Why is taking so long? Why we don’t see changes happen? Where is the promised improvement and lowering of the cost? What is wrong and who is responsible for fixing it? Is our team welcome changes as expected? What the hell is backlog and why is so messy?

Is this real cure of the problem? Can we handle massive number of test cases? Isn’t too overrated and magical? Why is so hard to implement and not accepted from developers?

Why most projects fail because of time? Why is so hard to estimate real cost of the software? Do we use a proper measures at all? Why adding manpower to a late software project makes it later? Is it cheaper now days to produce software since tools are so much improved?

Lest start with this picture showing the cost of software when we talk about debugged program until it gets to the finished system with documentation, testing and all necessary attributes.

Picture shows us what is the cost difference between working debugged program and product(stand alone) documented. Normally it will cost at least 3 times more. If we are building system product(system of systems), we have connections, exports, imports from other programs this will increase the cost 9 times comparing to debugged program.

Why would someone create design of the system(model), before test case specification is started? What kind of advantage this could give? Isn’t it too much obsolete work?