A critical programmer searches for professionalism
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Safety and Software Intensive Systems: Challenges Old and New
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
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The software crisis is still with us. In fact, it is worse than it has ever been, and we see evidence of the crisis regularly. All manner of applications from desktop systems to large-scale information systems are delivered late, exceed their projected budgets, and fail in various ways leading to inconvenience, loss of service, and loss of revenue. A recent study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that software errors cost the U.S. Economy about $59.5 billion annually [4] National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrast].