The Professor David Lorge Parnas Inaugural Lecture, discussing why software quality research is important, what topics he will be studying and how research at the Software Quality Research Laboratory (SQRL) will be conducted.
Software is devilishly hard to inspect. Serious errors can escape attention for years. Consequently, many are hesitant to employ software in safety-critical applications and developers and users are finding the correction ...
Vilkomir, Sergiy A.; Parnas, David Lorge(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
This experience and research based paper discusses the reasons that software cannot be trusted and then explains how the use of greatly improved documentation can make software more trustworthy. It shows how tabular ...
Unless you have a complete and precise description of a product's requirements, it is very unlikely that those requirements will be satisfied. An incomplete or inconsistent requirements document can mislead developers. A ...
Improperly designed interfaces can make modular programs almost indistinguishable from monoliths. An interface encapsulates design decisions only if it need not be changed when those design decisions are changed. This talk ...
