Background: Defects are related to failures and they do not have much power for indicating a higher quality or a better system above the baseline that the end-users expect. Nevert...
“Faster, Better, Cheaper” (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is...
In earlier work we have argued that formal process definitions can be useful in improving our understanding and performance of software development processes. There has, however,...
Software-based fault isolation (SFI), as used in Google’s Native Client (NaCl), relies upon a conceptually simple machine-code analysis to enforce a security policy. But for com...
Greg Morrisett, Gang Tan, Joseph Tassarotti, Jean-...
Although approaches to User Centered Software Development have existed for almost 20 years a rift still exists between theory and practice. In practice, many software projects are...