Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software

by Lauren Ruth Wiener

Book Overview

This book provides the background knowledge necessary to make better informed decisions about how computer-based systems are used, illustrates the weakness of these systems and discusses how little... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201407965
• ISBN13: 9780201407969
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant /entertaing analysis of softwareindustry problems

This book is the one I recommend to anyone who wants to understand why it's so hard to make reliable software, and to any developer who thinks the problems are easy to solve.The chapters are filled with specific examples of software failures, the judgement mistakes that caused them, and the difficulty of predicting the impact of modifcations to complex software systems. Well written throughout, solid examples, enjoyable probing analysis. Will make you think more about the software you're creating, or using.