Category:Software engineering disasters

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Software engineering is a process that is vulnerable to cost overruns, shifting targets, poor communication, and creeping complexity. Although those who study software engineering aim to mitigate these risks, engineers have not eliminated them completely, often leading to epic failures.

This page lists failures in software engineering, the study and application of principles that produce usable software products, as opposed to computer science, which is the study of more abstract principles.

Understanding past mistakes is an important part of systems engineering, and software engineering failures such as the Therac-25 are incorporated into engineering course curricula.

[edit] See also

• Category:Programming bugs — software engineering disasters can be caused by bugs

Pages in category "Software engineering disasters"

The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. Updates to this list can occasionally be delayed for a few days.

1 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash A Ariane 5 Ariane 5 Flight 501 C Computer insecurity I IBM Workplace OS

I cont. INCIS L Lufthansa Flight 2904 M MIM-104 Patriot Mariner 1 Mars Climate Orbiter Mars Polar Lander

M cont. The Mythical Man-Month P Phobos program T The Daily WTF Therac-25 V Virtual Case File Y Year 2038 problem

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