[icebraining]

> It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that multiple methods and tools might work. It's easier to market a simple cure.

The thing about these middlebrow dismissals is that they work the other way around:

"It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that they need self-discipline and rules. It's easier to just sell them on tools that will fix the problem."

[averell]

I just don't think it's likely that the real reason most software is crappy, is because nobody thought of extending unit test coverage yet. Selling tools here is not "the other way", it's the same problem.

What if the problem is bad management? Or low experience/expertise in general? All of these methods and tools are only optimizing locally, and cannot help the root causes.