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Donald MacKenzie has written an insightful account of the evolution of the term “dependability” and its relationship with the efforts of the software engineering community to produce reliable software artifacts. All I need to do here is underline some of his findings and supply some examples of such efforts that I have encountered in my work as a practitioner of software engineering so far. I will also comment on the still evolving nature of dependability and hazard some predictions about the challenges that future dependability procurement will entail given the rapidly changing computing infrastructure of our time.
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Stavridou, V. (2002). Dependability Then and Now: Commentary on Donald MacKenzie, “A View from the Sonnenbichl”. In: Hashagen, U., Keil-Slawik, R., Norberg, A.L. (eds) History of Computing: Software Issues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04954-9_11
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