From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sat Aug 08 1998 - 12:22:43 MDT
At 11:07 AM 8/8/98 EDT, Jay <Entropyfoe@aol.com> wrote:
>Yes, this to has bothered me. The advances in hardware seem predictable and
>on track, but given the bug ridden examples of SW we now see, it looks like
>the SW problems might be harder.
>Do any SW gurus on the list have any Morvec like graphs indicating the
>progress in SW algorithms? Anyone that uses windoze should have their doubts.
>I think that some sort of self replicating/self generating SW is needed with
>an evolutionary correction/redundancy built in will be necessary. Any
>progress in this area?
I think genetic programming will lend itself to this treatment.
But outside of that, software development groups need to use already existing
testing methodologies to reduce errors. See, e.g., Myer's _The Art of Software
Testing_, an oldie but a doogie.
Daniel Ust
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