Software engineering disasters Software engineering disasters Flight 501, which took place on on June 4, 1996, was the first test flight of the Ariane 5 expendable launch system. It was not successful; the rocket tore itself apart 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the control software, making the fault one of the most expensive computer bugs in history. The breakup caused the loss of the payload: four Cluster mission spacecraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ariane 5 Flight 501"
Daikatana is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive on April 22, 2000. It is known as one of the major flops of the computer game industry. The game has appeared on such platforms as Windows, Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64. A version being developed for the PlayStation was cancelled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daikatana"
Denver International Airport (DIA) is a major international airport located in northeastern Denver, Colorado. It is operated by the City and County of Denver. It ranks among the top ten busiest airports in the world and is the largest airport by area in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Denver International Airport"
Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is a yet-to-be-released first-person shooter video game being developed by 3D Realms, and is the next game in the popular Duke Nukem series. It is notorious for its protracted development, which has been ongoing since 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duke Nukem Forever"
A life-critical system or safety-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in a) death or serious injury to people, or b) loss or severe damage to equipment or c) environmental harm. Risks of this sort are usually handled with safety engineering. Examples of some applications are listed below. ...more on Wikipedia about "Life-critical system"
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a classic book on software project management written by Fred Brooks. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Mythical Man-Month"
Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. It was involved with at least six known accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, which were in some cases on the order of tens of thousands of rads. At least five patients died of the overdoses. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Therac-25"
In computing, the year 2038 problem may cause some computer software to fail in or about the year 2038. The problem affects programs that use the POSIX time representation, which represents time as the number of seconds (ignoring leap seconds) since January 1, 1970. This representation is standard in Unix-like operating systems and also affects software written for most other operating systems because of the broad deployment of C. On most 32-bit systems, the time_t data type used to store this second count is a signed 32-bit integer. The latest time that can be represented in this format, following the POSIX standard, is 03:14:08 UTC on January 19, 2038. Times beyond this moment will "wrap around" and be represented internally as a negative number, and cause programs to fail, since they will see these times not as being in 2038 but rather in 1970 or 1901, depending on the implementation. Erroneous calculations and decisions may therefore result. ...more on Wikipedia about "Year 2038 problem"
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