SE 300 Software
Engineering Spring 2005 Lab 1, Jan.
13,
2005
Developing and
Executing a Plan: Practice and History Web Searches
TEAM 1 - TEAM MEMBERS RANDALL FOOTE
and PAUL PICAZO
Software Practice:
Test Driven Development
Write tests
first then create the code to pass -- More endepth
description
IBM Corp. AND WEBSITE
FOR AN ORGANIZATION PROMOTING THIS
PRACTICE
Engineering Guru -
Harlan D Mills
Harlan D Mills
Harlan D
Mills was a engineer for IBM the promoted top down design and developed
struchtured programing concepts for pratical use. For a more
complete biography see Harlan Mills
(Harder) Harlan
Millls died in 1996
Famous Software
Bug -- Bad Numerical Computing
The numerical
computing error was in the conversion of a 64 bit floating point number
to a 16 bit integer. The 64 bit number was drastically larger
than the 16 bit integer could represent, This number was in
the inerial referance system which is used bu the guidance
system. The destruction took place on Jun 4, 1996. This bug
destroyed the rocket and its cargo which were evaluated at 500 million
dollars. With today's inflation that would be equivalent to
approximately 577 million dollars.
Iformation provided by The University of Minisota at
The Explosion of the
Ariane 5
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