Software as a Process
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The past year was a tipping point for the software industry, where the impacts of code faults in the field were felt far beyond the limited confines of our own development teams.
Widespread automotive recalls and events such as Heartbleed and GHOST hit home for all walks of life, linking real safety and security issues to the phrase ‘it’s a software bug’. There were plenty of good stories (the Rosetta space probe landing on a comet) to go with the bad stories (the Target data breach, costing shareholders $148 million), yet the overall responsibility is on the industry to do better.
