03246oam 2200493I 450 991029644840332120240219170552.00-262-34820-9(CKB)4100000007213068(CaBNVSL)mat08544147(IDAMS)0b000064888833cb(IEEE)8544147(OCoLC)1062397891(OCoLC-P)1062397891(MaCbMITP)11250(PPN)255245378(EXLCZ)99410000000721306820181112d2018 uy 0engur|n|||||||||rdacontentisbdmediardacarrierThe problem with software why smart engineers write bad code /by Adam BarrCambridge :The MIT Press,20181 PDF (320 pages)The MIT PressIncludes bibliographical references and index.An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software - and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. Why is software so prone to bugs? So vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, or even canceled? Is software development really hard, or are software developers just not that good at it? In The Problem with Software , Adam Barr examines the proliferation of bad software, explains what causes it, and offers some suggestions on how to improve the situation. For one thing, Barr points out, academia doesn't teach programmers what they actually need to know to do their jobs: how to work in a team to create code that works reliably and can be maintained by somebody other than the original authors. As the size and complexity of commercial software have grown, the gap between academic computer science and industry has widened. It's an open secret that there is little engineering in software engineering, which continues to rely not on codified scientific knowledge but on intuition and experience. Barr, who worked as a programmer for more than twenty years, describes how the industry has evolved, from the era of mainframes and Fortran to today's embrace of the cloud. He explains bugs and why software has so many of them, and why today's interconnected computers offer fertile ground for viruses and worms. The difference between good and bad software can be a single line of code, and Barr includes code to illustrate the consequences of seemingly inconsequential choices by programmers. Looking to the future, Barr writes that the best prospect for improving software engineering is the move to the cloud. When software is a service and not a product, companies will have more incentive to make it good rather than "good enough to ship."The MIT PressComputer softwareDevelopmentAnecdotesComputer programmersAnecdotesAnecdotes.fastCOMPUTER SCIENCE/GeneralComputer softwareDevelopmentComputer programmers005.3Barr Adam1208383OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910296448403321The problem with software2787635UNINA