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Verica Open Incident Database Report suggests mean time to resolve should be retired and replaced with other metrics more appropriate for software systems and networks. Mean time to resolve (MTTR) isn ...

Last month when I was covering ESC I asked how we can guarantee the reliability of complex embedded software systems. Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity just emailed me a response that I think you might find ...

The story of the advancement of technology over the last several decades is really a story about software. While it is certainly true that hardware (CPU/GPU cores and TIPS, memory GBs and TBs) and ...

Embedded software, once a challenge to write, update, and optimize, is following the route of other types of software. It is abstracted, simpler to use, and much faster to write. But in some cases, it ...

Automated Software Engineering represents a paradigm shift in how complex software systems are conceived, developed and maintained. By integrating techniques from artificial intelligence, search‐based ...

Removing flaws in software before they impact operations is an established strategy for reducing risk and cost. The approach is called “shift left,” which means addressing flaws as early as possible ...

Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm in the development of software systems, focusing on the systematic elicitation, modelling and analysis of system ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...

Software engineering is the process of applying engineering principles to analyze the needs of a specific user and then design, build and test software applications which will meet those needs.