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Outsourcing Responsibility.

The article offers the author's advice for outsourcing responsibility and handling a failed debugger. He mentions the dependence of people on codes which cannot be read due to its binary form in a software system which is designed from other parts. He notes the aspects of program trustworthiness alo...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 28 - 30
Main Author: Neville-Neil, George V.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2014
Subjects:
Outsourcing management
Computer debugging software
Responsibility
Software reliability
Integrated software
Computer programming
Error messages (Computer science)
Advice
Equipment & supplies
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article offers the author's advice for outsourcing responsibility and handling a failed debugger. He mentions the dependence of people on codes which cannot be read due to its binary form in a software system which is designed from other parts. He notes the aspects of program trustworthiness along with the stability of application programming interfaces (APIs). He also points out the imperfection of written programming tools as well as the concealment of timing bugs by print statements that leads to deception.