Written 11/11/93.
Whose fault is it when the software crashes? (Computer Weekly, 30 September 1993) goes halfway to addressing the problem. Even if the same person is doing the job of both analyst and programmer, proper documentation must be created and maintained. There is still a potential conflict as the question of what the specification should cover is not addressed. When I started programming, all the specifications written by the analysts looked like this: 3.1. Increment register 7 by 1. 3.2. If register 7 = 66 Then go to paragraph 3.3 Else print... Read next record. Go to paragraph 3.1.
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