NDLI: From busyware to stableware

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From busyware to stableware

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lawson, H.W.
Copyright Year	1970
Abstract	The integrated engineering of complex systems depends on, among other things, the supply of reliable, cost effective, stable components. However, as pointed out earlier by H.W. Lawson (1998), unnecessary complexity abounds in today's computer and communication structures, including the platforms that host many complex, often critical systems. Thus, even if an organization accurately designs, develops, and supports reliable, cost effective, nonplatform components, deploying them in an unstable platform will counteract even the most stringent engineering and management efforts. The system will be no stronger than its weakest components (R. Colwell, 1998,). Societal burdens are already here. A recent example is the Windows NT error that caused the Yorktown, an Aegis guided missile cruiser, to be disabled. The Yorktown could not perform its mission and had to be towed into port. An otherwise well engineered system failed because of a platform bug. There are likely many platform related failures in a variety of critical application domains that are never made public. A concerted (hopefully industry driven) effort must be made to move toward the stable integrated platform solutions that Colwell indicates. This requires a transformation from what the author calls busyware to stableware.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	117
Ending Page	119
Page Count	3
File Size	181918
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189162
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-10-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Hardware System software Security Costs Spirals Reliability engineering Software maintenance Operating systems Microprocessors Computer crashes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science

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