Download or read book Software Failure Management Failure written by Stephen Flowers and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea behind Software Failure is to make managers of information systems projects aware of how easy it is to become locked into a cycle of failure.
Download or read book Software Failure Risk written by Susan A. Sherer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author here presents a detailed explanation of the methodolgy of software reliablity evaluation, and then demonstrates its applications to a commercial loan system, a funds transfer security system, and a payables processing system. Her well-written, practical text enables users to design original software modules, as well as to critically assess commercial software products.
Download or read book Software Failure Investigation written by Jan Eloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews existing operational software failure analysis techniques and proposes near-miss analysis as a novel, and new technique for investigating and preventing software failures. The authors provide details on how near-miss analysis techniques focus on the time-window before the software failure actually unfolds, so as to detect the high-risk conditions that can lead to a major failure. They detail how by alerting system users of an upcoming software failure, the detection of near misses provides an opportunity to collect at runtime failure-related data that is complete and relevant. They present a near-miss management systems (NMS) for detecting upcoming software failures, which can contribute significantly to the improvement of the accuracy of the software failure analysis. A prototype of the NMS is implemented and is discussed in the book. The authors give a practical hands-on approach towards doing software failure investigations by means of near-miss analysis that is of use to industry and academia
Download or read book Failure Modes Based Software Reading written by Yang-Ming Zhu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying failure modes and their effects is critical to software failure mode and effects analysis and it largely depends on the analysts’ experience and the skill. This book develops a series of reading techniques based on common and prioritized failure modes in software requirements, software design, coding, and usability in order to makes the benefits of software failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) readily accessible to general software practitioners, particularly in small teams and resource-constrained organizations. After a general introduction it offers an overview of software FMEA and discusses software review procedures and software reading techniques. Subsequent chapters present the basic ideas behind failure-modes-based reading techniques and examine the use of these techniques for software requirements, software design, software coding, software usability, and software testing. Covering the entire creation process, and including checklists and examples, it provides an easy introduction to the topic for professionals in software engineering and quality assurance.
Download or read book Software Development Failures written by Kweku Ewusi-Mensah and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirically based study of why software development failures happen, and the lessons we can learn. Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the U.S. economy alone billions of dollars a year. In Software Development Failures, Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided. Case studies analyzed include the well-known Confirm travel industry reservation program, FoxMeyer's Delta, the IRS's Tax System Modernization, the Denver International Airport's Baggage Handling System, and CODIS. It has been estimated that one-third of software development projects fail or are abandoned outright because of cost overruns, delays, and reduced functionality. Some consider this an acceptable risk—that it is simply the cost of doing business. Ewusi-Mensah argues that understanding the factors involved in development failures will help developers and businesses bring down the rate of software failure and abandoned projects. Ewusi-Mensah explores the reasons software development projects are vulnerable to failure and why issues of management and organization are at the core of any failed project. He examines these projects not from a deterministically technical perspective but as part of a complex technical and social process; he proposes a framework of factors that contribute to the decision to abandon a project and enumerates the risks and uncertainties inherent in each phase of a project's life cycle. Exploring the multiplicity of factors that make software development risky, he presents empirical data that is reinforced by analyses of the reported cases. He emphasizes the role of the user in the development process and considers the effect of organizational politics on a project. Finally, he considers what lessons can be learned from past failures and how software development practices can be improved.
Download or read book Effective Application of Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis 2nd Edition written by Ann Marie Neufelder and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Software Runaways written by Robert L. Glass and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Software runaway war stories. Software runaway remedies. Conclusions.
Download or read book Systems Reliability and Failure Prevention written by Herbert Hecht and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This timely resource offers engineers and managers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the techniques and practice of systems reliability and failure prevention, without the use of advanced mathematics.
Download or read book Patterns of Software System Failure and Success written by Capers Jones and published by Itp New Media. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explains why some software systems fail and what you can do to salvage them before they mean critical disaster. It ultimately provides an in-depth look at all the factors which affect development, and suggests ways in which to minimize risks and
Download or read book IT Project Management written by Bertram Rangel and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development downtime is one of the primary contributors to challenged or failed projects. Major factors that lead to software project failure are - application bug or error, environmental factors, infrastructure or software failure, virus, hacker, network/hardware failure, and operator error. This book tries to deal with the local and the wider aspects of the failure and offering a simple and methodical way to deal with software projects, starting with the CIO through the project manager down to the execution teams.
Download or read book Risk Management in Software Engineering written by Mayank Jindal and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to enable the organization to accomplish better security to the IT systems that store, process, or transmit organizational information and enable management to make well-informed risk management decisions to justify the expenditures that are part of an IT budget. Risk management is an increasingly important business driver and stakeholders have become much more concerned about risk. Risk may be a driver of strategic decisions, it may be a cause of uncertainty in the organization or it may simply be embedded in the activities of the organization. This book explains the concept about how to manage risks in software projects.
Download or read book Why Programs Fail written by Andreas Zeller and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Programs Fail is about bugs in computer programs, how to find them, how to reproduce them, and how to fix them in such a way that they do not occur anymore. This is the first comprehensive book on systematic debugging and covers a wide range of tools and techniques ranging from hands-on observation to fully automated diagnoses, and includes instructions for building automated debuggers. This discussion is built upon a solid theory of how failures occur, rather than relying on seat-of-the-pants techniques, which are of little help with large software systems or to those learning to program. The author, Andreas Zeller, is well known in the programming community for creating the GNU Data Display Debugger (DDD), a tool that visualizes the data structures of a program while it is running. Winner of a 2006 Jolt Productivity Award for Technical Books Shows how to reproduce software failures faithfully, how to isolate what is important about the failure, and to discover what caused it Describes how to fix the program in the best possible way, and shows how to create your own automated debugging tools Includes exercises and extensive references for further study
Download or read book Drift into Failure written by Professor Sidney Dekker and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.
Download or read book Effective Application of Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis written by Ann Marie Neufelder and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Software Projects Secrets written by George Stepanek and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the software industry. This book reaches out to managers, developers, and customers who use industry-standard methodologies, but whose projects still struggle to succeed. Author George Stepanek analyzes the project management methodology itself, a critical factor that has thus far been overlooked. He explains why it creates problems for software development projects and begins by describing 12 ways in which software projects are different from other kinds of projects. He also analyzes the project management body of knowledge to discover 10 hidden assumptions that are invalid in the context of software projects.
Download or read book Systems Failure Analysis written by Joseph Berk and published by ASM International. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Failure Management written by William B. Rouse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react? William B. Rouse takes an analytic approach to these questions and addresses eighteen well-known cases of high-consequence failures. He employs a multi-level framework to integrate findings across the case studies, and in turn uses these to outline a conceptual approach to integrated failure management. Though diverse in their causes and outcomes, his analysis shows that the conceptual design of an integrated approach to failure management can encompass each of the case studies, all of which would have benefitted from the same conceptual decision support architecture. This enables cross-cutting system design principles and practices, assuring that failure management in every new domain and context need not start with a blank slate.
