DocumentCode :
779431
Title :
Building better software with better tools
Author :
Vaughan-Nichols, S.J.
Volume :
36
Issue :
9
fYear :
2003
Firstpage :
12
Lastpage :
14
Abstract :
In recent years, one of the loudest ongoing complaints about computer technology has been about the poor quality of commercial software. With software becoming more complex and products becoming increasingly dependent on software, bugs are affecting more people and the level of consumer dissatisfaction has increased dramatically. With this in mind, three major companies-IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems-have started separate projects with different focuses but the same goal: to improve software quality with better tools. These efforts also attempt to reduce development costs and cut down on tedious debugging tasks. Each project automates the testing process so that programmers can find software errors at early stages of the development process, when it´s less expensive to fix them.
Keywords :
program debugging; software quality; software tools; IBM; Microsoft; Sun Microsystems; bugs; commercial software; consumer dissatisfaction; debugging tasks; development costs; development process; software quality; software tools; testing process; Companies; Computer bugs; Costs; Java; Market research; NIST; Programming profession; Software debugging; Software quality; Software tools;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Computer
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9162
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2003.1231186
Filename :
1231186
Link To Document :
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