TY - GEN
T1 - Uncertainty
T2 - 2005 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW'05
AU - Laplante, Phillip A.
AU - Neill, Colin J.
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - Uncertainty pervades all aspects of engineering, and its management is of paramount importance. In software engineering, uncertainty can occur at many levels. It can appear in the software artifacts including requirements specifications, designs, and the code itself. Uncertainty can also manifest in the way we use tools, and in the engineering practices employed. It is even present in the life cycle methodologies we employ. In short, uncertainty is a persistent, negative quality of both the software and the processes that rendered it. Unfortunately, t is too easy, but often the case, that software engineers ignore issues of uncertainty or overlook them as they become marginalized within other abstractions. In this paper we propose uncertainty as a persistent software quality attribute and examine several approaches for modeling that uncertainty. Finally, we offer suggestions for future work in this regard.
AB - Uncertainty pervades all aspects of engineering, and its management is of paramount importance. In software engineering, uncertainty can occur at many levels. It can appear in the software artifacts including requirements specifications, designs, and the code itself. Uncertainty can also manifest in the way we use tools, and in the engineering practices employed. It is even present in the life cycle methodologies we employ. In short, uncertainty is a persistent, negative quality of both the software and the processes that rendered it. Unfortunately, t is too easy, but often the case, that software engineers ignore issues of uncertainty or overlook them as they become marginalized within other abstractions. In this paper we propose uncertainty as a persistent software quality attribute and examine several approaches for modeling that uncertainty. Finally, we offer suggestions for future work in this regard.
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U2 - 10.1109/SEW.2005.48
DO - 10.1109/SEW.2005.48
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646940814
SN - 0769523064
SN - 9780769523064
T3 - Proceedings of the 2005 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW'05
SP - 228
EP - 233
BT - Proceedings of the 2005 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, SEW'05
Y2 - 6 April 2005 through 7 April 2005
ER -