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Silver Bullets for Little Monsters: Making Software More Trustworthy
March/April 2005 (vol. 7 no. 2)
pp. 9-13
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David Larson, Keith Miller, "Silver Bullets for Little Monsters: Making Software More Trustworthy," IT Professional, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 9-13, March/April, 2005.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MITP.2005.42,
author = {David Larson and Keith Miller},
title = {Silver Bullets for Little Monsters: Making Software More Trustworthy},
journal ={IT Professional},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
issn = {1520-9202},
year = {2005},
pages = {9-13},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2005.42},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IT Professional
TI - Silver Bullets for Little Monsters: Making Software More Trustworthy
IS - 2
SN - 1520-9202
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EPD - 9-13
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A1 - Keith Miller,
PY - 2005
KW - software quality
KW - software engineering
KW - software development
KW - programming
KW - memory leak
KW - buffer overflow
KW - unclosed files
KW - trustworthy software
KW - software silver bullets
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JA - IT Professional
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David Larson, University of Illinois at Springfield
Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield
Despite the legions of ideas about how to improve software quality, much commercial software remains untrustworthy. In this article, the authors make the case for at least taking small steps toward improved quality by using silver bullets "corrective actions or methods" to at least eliminate some common problems, the "little monsters" of the title. Here, they discuss three such problems "memory leaks, buffer overflows, and files that remain unclosed when a program terminates" and list several techniques proposed to eliminate them in software.
Index Terms:
software quality, software engineering, software development, programming, memory leak, buffer overflow, unclosed files, trustworthy software, software silver bullets
Citation:
David Larson, Keith Miller, "Silver Bullets for Little Monsters: Making Software More Trustworthy," IT Professional, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 9-13, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MITP.2005.42
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