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Upul Bandara
Upul Bandara

Reputation: 5958

catastrophic disasters due to software system failures

I know this is not a programming problem, but this problem is related to computer systems I am posting this question.

Can somebody tell me a good place to find out information related to catastrophic disasters due to software system failures? For example incidents like Therac-25.

The risk digest is a good place, but information it provides for each case is not enough for my requirement.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1320

Answers (1)

Jonathan Leffler
Jonathan Leffler

Reputation: 753585

There are a couple of other places that spring to mind if the Risks archive is not sufficient.

One is Robert Glass's book 'Software Runaways: Catastrophic Disasters due to Software System Failures'.

The other is P G Neumann's book based on the Risks archive, 'Computer-Related Risks', which is now a bit dated (1994; wow, time flies!).

Glass also has a book 'ComputingFailure.com' that is apposite. You might consider 'Death March' and 'Decline and Fall of the American Programmer' (Yourdon) as related too.

Upvotes: 1

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