Category:Software engineering disasters
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Software engineering is a process that is vulnerable to cost overruns, shifting targets, poor communication, and creeping complexity. Although those who study software engineering aim to mitigate these risks, engineers have not eliminated them completely, sometimes leading to catastrophic failures.
This page lists failures in software engineering, the study and application of principles that produce usable software products, as opposed to computer science, which is the study of more abstract principles.
Understanding past mistakes is an important part of systems engineering, and software engineering failures such as the Therac-25 are incorporated into engineering course curricula.
[edit] See also
- Category:Programming bugs — software engineering disasters can be caused by bugs
Pages in category "Software engineering disasters"
The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
