Bibliographic Information
The Economist
January 9, 1988
"Something rotten in the state of software"
Pg. 75
Main Issues
- Customes' right to expect that their software works properly
- Difficulty of Programming
- Difficuly of Catching Bugs In Longer Programs
- Methods Used to Better Ensure Programs Contain Fewer Bugs
Abstract:
Bugs infest nearly all computer programs. Although more and more people's lives and money depend on software, nobody can write programs that are guaranteed to
be error-free. And few working programmers use available methods that can reduce the chance of error. Some day soon they will have to learn the new science of software engineering, which can include program formula specification methods such as Larch.
For further knowledge...
- For more information on developments in improving software reliability, check out the following site devoted to software engineering.
- Click here for a great bibliography of software engineering literature from a course description at the University of Colorado.
- Programming isn't easy! For a discussion of some bugs which have surfaced as a result of this fact, click <"summary7.html">here.
- For a summary of a software failure, click here.
- For further discussion on software reliability, click here
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