There is a controversy in the software development industry about quality.

To many people, quality is expensive, and lower quality means cheaper development which means financial savings. This very simplistic thinking leads to spending less on qualified developers, less solid testing and fixes based on test results, less on learning, training and self-improving.

High quality leads to better efficiency achieved by code reuse, predictable schedule, less time spent on testing, bug fixing, re-testing again, better performance, happier customers and end users.

As a software developer I have always took great pride in my job and considered it of an art. It has been my long time dream to develop a tool that would help programmers produce better code and be better professionals. After over 3 years in development, we released CodeIt.Right last spring - a Visual Studio plug-in that finds source code deficiencies, security issues, performance bottlenecks, guides developers through the best practices and even refactors code automatically. We stick to out beliefs of a quality code and software craftsmanship. 

To help creating awareness that there is a problem with the current state of software development the software craftsmanship community has released a manifesto

As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft.

If you agree that craftsmanship matters for software developers, show your support and sign the manifesto!

http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/ 

There is also Google Group you can join:

Software Craftsmanship Google Group