[SystemSafety] Collected stopgap measures

Martyn Thomas martyn at thomas-associates.co.uk
Fri Nov 16 10:49:15 CET 2018


Echoes of the great Dave Parnas:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260649064_A_Rational_Design_Process_How_and_Why_to_Fake_it


On 16/11/2018 06:05, Paul Sherwood wrote:
> Any reasonable diligence on software shows that
> pre-specifying/architecting is a minority sport. The drill-downs I've
> done personally lead me to conclude that in many of the cases where
> folks claim that they applied this approach, the evidence doesn't
> stack up. Often the documents are retrofitted.
>
> I'm not suggesting that folks who insist here that they get spec, and
> arch, and software, right first time (in that order) are lying.
> However I do think they are in a small minority.

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