Certainly we need better tools, but we also need a better process. I think many people who haven't been exposed to rigorous engineering processes that exist in manufacturing world to build durable products that keep on working year after year or even things like building bridges that have to really hold up to their specifications.
As people from the manufacturing world (some of whom are quite unaware of the buggyness of software) attempt to integrate more software into things - the so called 'internet of things' - we're in for a big surprise when most of this stuff ends up breaking. Software people have all too easily have accepted in their mind this 'inevitability' of having to run on the update/patch treadmill to make things work that should never have been shipped in the first place.
As people from the manufacturing world (some of whom are quite unaware of the buggyness of software) attempt to integrate more software into things - the so called 'internet of things' - we're in for a big surprise when most of this stuff ends up breaking. Software people have all too easily have accepted in their mind this 'inevitability' of having to run on the update/patch treadmill to make things work that should never have been shipped in the first place.