Safe Evacuation for All A top 10 List of Requirements

Top 10 List for Building Team Science.

Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List

“Avoidable rework” is effort spent fixing difficulties with the software that could have been avoided or discovered earlier and less expensively. This definition implies that there is such thing as “unavoidable rework”. Reducing “avoidable rework” is a major source of software productivity improvement and most effort savings from improving software processes, architectures and risk management a...

COTS-Based Systems Top 10 List

I n the January 2001 issue of Computer (pp. 135-137), we published the Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List—one of two foci pursued by the National Science Foundation-sponsored Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering (CeBASE). COTS-based systems (CBS) provide the other CeBASE focus. For our intent, COTS software has the following characteristics: The buyer has no access to the source...

Software defect reduction top 10 list - Computer

R ecently, a National Science Foundation grant enabled us to establish the Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering. CeBASE seeks to transform software engineering as much as possible from a fad-based practice to an engineering-based practice through derivation, organization, and dissemination of empirical data on software development and evolution phenomenology. The phrase “as much as...

Safe surgery for all☆

he surgical act involves risks and responsibilities for the atient, the surgeon and the hospital at different degrees of ntensity. An interesting practice known as “time out”, forming part f the Safe Surgery project, has been disseminated among ospitals. The idea is to check all the possibilities for failure that ight occur during the surgical procedure and failures due to istakes at different ...