"...there is something seriously flawed in software crisis thinking."

Do you think this is the basis of much of the general negativity about software quality? Do you think this is the basis of software crisis thinking and that in turn is the basis of much of the general negativity about software quality?

Do you think there is a general negativity about software quality, or is it limited to testing circles as with each defect we find, we long for some ideal software that has no bugs anyone can seem to find and performs really well right off the bat -- an ideal of software that really just does not exist?

Why should the fact that software needs to be tested and that defects are inevitable, be a source of disgust to the very people whose bread the work of testing butters? I think many testers hold this contradictory opinion. They fervently believe in testing, and may even enjoy their jobs, yet feel on some level like their work should not even be necessary. I'm peeking up over the edge of the foxhole that I've been entrenched in for so long and questioning whether this is the correct view... In other words, I'm looking up and finding one of my icons has been smashed. The one called "software just plain sucks period".