Silver Bullets for Little Monsters: Making Software More Trustworthy

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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 SP9 EP13 EPD - 9-13 A1 - David Larson, 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 VL - 7 JA - IT Professional ER -

David Larson, University of Illinois at Springfield

Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2005.42

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.

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software quality, software engineering, software development, programming, memory leak, buffer overflow, unclosed files, trustworthy software, software silver bullets

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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, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MITP.2005.42

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