Considerations for Design and Management of Critical Software Code
By Jonathan Bagot B.C.Sc. No matter what type of software you’re developing, chances are that you will be asked to make some changes over the software development life-cycle. Change can be problematic...
View ArticleRewards and Frustrations of SQA
By Vladimir Shterenberg Software quality assurance (SQA) and testing can be as rewarding as it can be frustrating. Every organization has different ideas on what quality means and what level of quality...
View ArticleInvestigating Failures in Complex Systems
by Andrew Bugera, EIT Some recent highly-publicized failures of complex systems have reminded all of us that failures can still occur even when the design team puts forth their best effort to prevent...
View ArticleWhere’s My Data?
By: Betty Plummer, Software Developer Pharmacy software generates a lot of data. It needs to be saved (or persisted) for reference or reporting. The gold standard for the past few decades has been to...
View ArticleWhy Coders Should Not Be Testers
By: David Pilkington, Software Developer I’ve been a software developer all my adult life and then some – back to the days when we were called “computer programmers.” In those 35 years I’ve learned a...
View ArticleMarrying Hardware and Software
By: David Pilkington, Software Developer DEARLY beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of Geeks, and in the face of these consumers, to join together this Hardware and this Software in...
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