Hatton, Les - School of Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University

• Title Slide "Recent case studies in testing
• Title Slide "The characteristic shape of software"
• The Implementation and Organisation of Work Arrays in Numerical Algorithms
• Kings X has a platform zero ! Les Hatton, 07-Aug-2010
• Laboratory Computer Software: Fitness for CISM, University of Kingston
• Title Slide "Consumer price obfuscation and fuzzy global optimisation"
• Help, I need somebody ... (not just anybody, a firewire expert) My fault. There I go getting all upbeat for a whole month and then I have the
• On the Evolution of Unnatural Language CISM, Kingston University
• Wi-fi, the media and innumeracy This month's column is dedicated to all those who feel they now need to wear
• "Embeddedcontrolsystems: risksandchallenges"
• Title Slide "The role of empiricism in improving the reliability of
• Title Slide "Building on success
• Power-laws, persistence and the distribution of information in software systems
• UKSIM' 99,7-9April,1999 "Theinfluenceof softwaredefects
• Boring but expensive I note that the Inland Revenue appears to have lost control of its grand IT
• Title Slide "15 years of measuring the effects of defect on
• Version 2nd Apr 97, for CS & E THE T-EXPERIMENTS: ERRORS IN
• Some things to watch out for when using PHP and Javascript when building websites
• "eRiskandeBenefit:theeConomics ofsoftwaretesting"
• Title Slide "Software quality and the
• Title: The Ariane 5 bug and a few lessons Author: Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, U.K. and the Computing Laboratory,
• Title Slide "Optimising airgun signatures for different seismic
• Title Slide "How to write scientific papers and get them accepted
• Defect patterns in two case histories: evidence in favour of continued testing after delivery
• Forensic Software Engineering and not before time I'm writing this article in August because I am jetting off to a conference in
• Title Slide "Balancing static and dynamic testing
• Seek and ye shall find I promised I would be more upbeat this month so apart from a minor go at British
• Static inspection tapping the wheels of software Les Hatton, Programming Research Ltd., U.K.
• TitleSlide 2004-" SomenotesonRisk"
• The supply of good engineers may dry up Computing is full of surprises even at its roots and periodically, computer
• D3: Sacred software cows: software development is high-tech
• Beware Internet bees There are times when I am truly, I believe the phrase is gobsmacked, by the
• Title Slide Bureaucracy, Safety and Software
• Forensic Software Engineering: Taking the guesswork out of testing
• AIRGUN ARRAY AND DEPTH TRANSPONDER SIGNATURES AS MIGHT BE HEARD BY ODONTOCETI
• Football crazy, Football Math: A grumpy person's guide to football and its mathematics
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• "Alegalframeworkforunderstanding softwaresystemsbehaviour"
• Now that's what I call a phone bill, innit I thought I would carry on in the same vein as last month and say a little more
• Unifying power-law behaviour, functionality and defect distribution in general software
• D3: Distributed Blame Systems ... Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• So who says development is easy ? Although I frequently and I feel justifiably complain about the quality of some
• Do Formal Methods Improve Code Quality? Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Les Hatton
• How accurately do engineers predict software maintenance tasks ?
• Title: Some notes on software failure Date: 24/Oct/2001
• Embedded system paranoia: STAR 12 Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
• To design or not to design Design is an essential element in the production of a reasonable engineering
• D3: A Tale of Two PC's: a Mac and a P90 Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• An implementation of a word stemming algorithm for English
• Let the Games begin ... Hold your collective breath dear readers as 2012 fever takes hold, it may not be
• Open source inevitably good I've been reading an excellent book this week called "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why
• Title Slide "Conservation of software defect and scale-free behaviour
• On Professionalism in IT Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University
• My Father, Leslie Hatton, 1920-1996 My father died on Christmas day. I had had a strong premonition that this
• A not entirely tongue in cheek metric for Art 04 Sept 2003
• Spam flitters I was going to write about complex systems this month but I've spent much of it
• "Safety-criticalsoftwareinmedicalandothersystems" Professor Les Hatton
• Title Slide FOSS systems: Why do we not use them more ?
• Bureaucracy, Safety and Software: a potentially lethal cocktail
• Title Slide DERTS event, IEE, May 2003, SOSA
• Inhuman interfaces My theme this month is the quality of interfaces. I have written about this
• Title Slide European Software Testing Congress, May 2000
• Adventures with Vista Today I bought two new servers from Currys. They are Acer something or others with triple core
• Goodbye and thanks for all the phish The structure of IT Week is being re-organised a little and this will be my last
• A case study in complex systems evolution: consumer price obfuscation and mobile/cell
• The Wobbles of Windowdom, Sep 2004 -Nov CIS, University of Kingston
• Scientific Communication and Computer Programs Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University
• 1946-2010: Worldwide Hurricane Activity Les Hatton
• Title Slide "Trebuchets, warbows and optimising the javelin throw"
• Title Slide Computer says ...
• Embedded system paranoia: a tool for testing embedded system arithmetic
• A personal reflection on software engineering February 27, 2011
• Kile, Latex and tensor mathematics Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University
• Title Slide "Power-laws, persistence and the distribution of
• 1999-2009: Has the intensity and frequency of hurricanes increased ?
• Title Slide "Open source data handling
• Modulated power-law behaviour in Stirling's approximation
• Title Slide "Unifying power-law behaviour, functionality and defect
• How to build successful complex systems: lessons from open source
• Basic computer security Les Hatton
• Title Slide "The broadband acoustic output of
• Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics THE ACOUSTIC FIELD OF MARINE SEISMIC AIRGUNS
• Title Slide "goto considered not particularly harmful: defect analysis
• Title Slide 2008-"Some notes on IT Law"
• Exploring defect correlations in a major Fortran numerical library
• Title Slide "Forensic Software Engineering
• Title Slide "Testing: some answers but lots more questions"
• On the conservation of software defect CISM, University of Kingston
• Title Slide "Modelling the flight of a javelin in a prevailing wind"
• Title Slide "Failure patterns
• Commentary on two airgun videos CISM, Kingston University
• Title Slide "Airguns: what we know and what we don't know"
• Persistence correlation analysis as an aid in searching for rare but significant textual
• Testing the value of checklists in code inspections CISM, University of Kingston
• An empirical relationship between surface reflection coefficient and source array amplitude
• Embedded system paranoia: TI OMAP (ARM9) Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
• Embedded system paranoia: IAR Compiler with MPS430, (low power mixed signal RISC)
• The Chimera of Software Quality Les Hatton, 15Sep2006
• Estimating source lines of code from object code: Windows and Embedded Control Systems
• Forensic Software Engineering: an overview CIS, University of Kingston, UK
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1999. Submitted to IEEE Software July/1999. Page .. 1 "Characterising the diagnosis of software failure "
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1999. Submitted to STQE 2/00. Page .. 1 "Linux and the CMM"
• "Programming technology, reliability, safety and measurement"
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1997, v1.5. Submitted to IEEE Software 12/98. Page .. 1 "Does OO really match the way we think ? "
• What is a formal method, (and what is an informal method) ?
• Les Hatton, 1996-7. Page .. 1 "Are N average software versions better than 1 good version
• Defects, defects, defects ... August 8, 2010
• Bases of Knowledge: Plumbing the infinite with a toothpick Its been a bad week for Anglo-Saxons. First having incarcerated us in the inflexible and largely
• Whats your password sir -we don't know it either In recent times, I have noticed an increasing number of friends talking of
• The Sorcerer's Apprentices I have travelled extensively in Europe teaching engineers for the last 10 years
• Not a good year, but not surprising First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Just remember to
• Snap, snap, bugger, no images ... Software testing is a much maligned activity and software testers rarely enjoy
• Digital television: quality matches content I often find myself trying to anticipate what the world would be like if
• Vroom, vroom ... crash I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed this week. The rot set in
• The Bower of Tabel One of my serious research interests as a computer scientist is the
• Buy me and stop one I was idly musing through a computer magazine or two this week when it struck me
• Budgie on a swing I had to pinch myself several times this week. As the computing industry
• IT, offshoring and skill atrophy I am writing this Houston bound on a Boeing 777. Such is the comfort of modern
• Knock, knock it's my friendly neighbourhood internet burglar I wonder if you realise just how many people are knocking at the door of your
• Supermarket but inferiorIT I sometimes think that computer scientists should get out more and see just what
• Click, click, click, was that your train sir ? As a change from all our security woes, I have been suffering from unnecessarily
• Computers on wheels, the modern car I wonder how many of you know how much software there is in the humble car these
• Zero-defect software and other figments of the imagination I had a choice of juicy failures to talk about this week. I finally decided to
• Trouble with help lines In this article, I was going to write about the experiences of dumping Windows
• Beware of standard terms and conditions As this is an inaugural article, permit me to introduce myself. I've worked in
• D3: The avoidable, the unavoidable and the unforeseeable
• D3: Small components AREN'T beautiful Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• D3: Sacred software cows: maintenance Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• LL.M. thesis, Les Hatton, 1999 Page 1 Towards a consistent legal framework for
• Optimising the javelin throw in the presence of prevailing winds
• Title Slide "A measurement perspective on testing"
• Title Slide "Designing and implementing Efficient Tests and
• Title Slide "Dross ex machina: A long hard look at the influence
• Title Slide "Forensic Software Engineering
• Title Slide "Avoiding expensive IT project and product failures
• Title Slide "A short potter through 21 years of software er, engineering"
• Title Slide "ForensicSoftwareEngineering
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• Title Slide "The Power of Modern Testing
• Title Slide "Memorability and Invisibility
• "TestingembeddedCprograms: Ameasurement basedapproachtobalancing
• Title Slide "Computer Science Education or Computer
• " Softwarefailure:livingwithawobblytechnology" Inaugural lecture of Professor Les Hatton,
• OA KW OOD COMPUTING -SURV IV A L A ND A V OIDA NCE STRA TEGIES FOR SOFTW A RE FA ILURE "Testing:theinfluenceof complexity,coupling
• STAR' 99East,May10-141999 "Testingisnot aphase"
• Language subsetting in an industrial context: a comparison of MISRA C 1998 and MISRA C
• Fortran, C or C++ for geophysical software development ? Les Hatton1
• World championships javelin, 2005: (BBC discovers we have no athletes either)
• Salmon penne and the Salmon of Doubt August 1, 2006
• Javelin throwing the appliance of science Preparation and technique are vital but on the day, you might need to know your physics
• D3: Sacred software cows: linguistic quibbles Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Title Slide "A long hard look at the effects of defect on
• The second edition of the MISRA C guidelines Les Hatton,
• Title Slide "The role of the scientific method in improving
• Salutary lessons in software engineering Author: Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, U.K. and the Computing
• Please wait or please slit your throat As I have written at length on over the years, the systematic production of
• Slightly Sepulchral Look Are you ever concerned about the future of British computer engineering ? I am
• Only the ones who are left don't do it for the money I notice that the number of voices commenting on the looming skills crisis in IT
• D3: Sacred software cows: small components are Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• OA KW OOD COMPUTING -SURV IV A L A ND A V OIDA NCE STRA TEGIES FOR SOFTW A RE FA ILURE "Paradigmshift ormeasurement basedfeedback?"
• Coordinate transformations and two exact solutions of the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes
• Replacing Windows with Linux Working with a neighbour's XP machine this week trying to sort out the endless
• "DesigningandimplementingEfficientTestsand TestStrategies"
• Title Slide "Spam, Scams and Filtering
• "SOFTWARE FAILURE: FOLLIES AND FALLACIES" Software failure is becoming big news. It costs a fortune and much of it could have been avoided.
• Never exchange money in UK airports June 11, 2010
• Quick guide to PHP session management, 03/Mar/2006 This document gives a quick overview to PHP session management. Note that use
• Title Slide "To what extent can we rely on the results
• A mechanism for the invasion of a sub-tropical high by a hurricane: Part 1, static analysis
• Title Slide "E-mail Forensics"
• The promise of scripting languages for business process automation Spurred on by all the dire security predictions recently on the use of Internet
• Do you rely on spreadsheet results ? Really ? Some of you will remember amongst the many jewels to be found in the Hitch
• D3: Software -PC'd off by your PC ? This is the opening article in a regular series on the general subject of software
• Garbage in, money out One of the most consistently successful ways of screwing up computer programs
• A method for spam blocking CISM, University of Kingston
• Failure-aware programming: and introduction and some predictions
• Predicting the total number of faults using parallel code inspections
• Title Slide 2008-"Risk assessment: a frightening new weapon in the battle
• "Rhythm,pitch,harmonyandtheguitarist' sear" RGT ` 99 teachers conference
• A measurement based safer subset of ISO C suitable for embedded system development
• D3: Software -dross ex machina Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1998. Submitted to JSS 11/98. Page .. 1 "Repetitive failure, feedback and the lost art of diagnosis"
• OA KW OOD COMPUTING -SURV IV A L A ND A V OIDA NCE STRA TEGIES FOR SOFTW A RE FA ILURE "WhyisLinuxsoreliable?"
• Functionality, power-laws and defect evolution in software systems
• Title: Failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems
• How to do risk assessments so you don't get asked again
• Embedded system paranoia: results from real CISM, Kingston University
• Disconnecting for Health This article is about fallibility and computer systems provoked by the gently
• Windows for, gulp, warships I have finally returned from a testing conference in Oz this week predictably
• How to tie yourself in knots with words: the student loan scheme
• Safer Language Subsets: an overview and a case history, MISRA C.
• Embedded system paranoia: gcc 3.4.x, PowerPC and Intel desktop
• Title Slide "Safer Language Subsets"
• Confuse your way to a small fortune First of all a big thank you to fellow rail sufferers who contacted me after
• Title Slide "The fault detectability domain
• D3: Small components AREN'T beautiful, continued ...
• XP recovery and fairies in the garden As you may know by now, I am a staunch supporter of Open Source alternatives to
• D3: The re-use of re-use Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Copyright, Les Hatton, Programming Research Ltd., 1994-96; for IEEE Software, 27/5/96. Page .. 1 "Why is the defect density curve U-shaped with
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• "Incorporatingmarinemammalhearingintoahigh gradeairgunmodellingpackage"
• Spreadsheets: 'spread' as in 'middleage ...' Spreadsheets are interesting applications. When the spreadsheet Supercalc
• Unsorting: an easy way of generating random permutations of an array
• "C and Portability " Les Hatton 1
• A symmetric cipher not requiring prior sender/receiver key agreement
• The devil and the deep blue sea August 2001
• "TheMISRA-Copenconformancesuite: workinprogress"
• D3: Object-Orientation and other mythologies Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Title Slide "Scientific Computation and the Scientific Method
• Title Slide "Javelins: throwing, training and associated injuries"
• Title Slide "A linear interpolant model for the pre-dinner speech"
• Title Slide "Specifications: Sometimes Safety-Critical Systems
• Title Slide "High-Integrity Software, Computation and
• Defects, Scientific Computation and the Scientific Method
• High-Integrity Software, Computation and the Scientific Method Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University, UK
• Title Slide "Recent case studies in testing
• "Embeddedcontrolsystems: risksandchallenges"
• Defects, defects, defects ... August 8, 2010
• Vroom, vroom ... crash I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed this week. The rot set in
• Title Slide 2008-"Risk assessment: a frightening new weapon in the battle
• Embedded system paranoia: a tool for testing embedded system arithmetic
• LL.M. thesis, Les Hatton, 1999 Page 1 Towards a consistent legal framework for
• D3: Sacred software cows: linguistic quibbles Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Title Slide "Open source data handling
• IT, offshoring and skill atrophy I am writing this Houston bound on a Boeing 777. Such is the comfort of modern
• Quick guide to PHP session management, 03/Mar/2006 This document gives a quick overview to PHP session management. Note that use
• Commentary on two airgun videos CISM, Kingston University
• Open source inevitably good I've been reading an excellent book this week called "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why
• Functionality, power-laws and defect evolution in software systems
• Title Slide "Conservation of software defect and scale-free behaviour
• "Rhythm,pitch,harmonyandtheguitarist' sear" RGT ` 99 teachers conference
• "Incorporatingmarinemammalhearingintoahigh gradeairgunmodellingpackage"
• On Professionalism in IT Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University
• Title Slide DERTS event, IEE, May 2003, SOSA
• "DesigningandimplementingEfficientTestsand TestStrategies"
• Exploring defect correlations in a major Fortran numerical library
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1999. Submitted to IEEE Software July/1999. Page .. 1 "Characterising the diagnosis of software failure "
• Title Slide "Power-laws, persistence and the distribution of
• The second edition of the MISRA C guidelines Les Hatton,
• Title Slide "Unifying power-law behaviour, functionality and defect
• Kings X has a platform zero ! Les Hatton, 07-Aug-2010
• Title Slide "Airguns: what we know and what we don't know"
• My Father, Leslie Hatton, 1920-1996 My father died on Christmas day. I had had a strong premonition that this
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• The supply of good engineers may dry up Computing is full of surprises even at its roots and periodically, computer
• Title Slide Bureaucracy, Safety and Software
• Beware of standard terms and conditions As this is an inaugural article, permit me to introduce myself. I've worked in
• Title Slide "Modelling the flight of a javelin in a prevailing wind"
• "Safety-criticalsoftwareinmedicalandothersystems" Professor Les Hatton
• Now that's what I call a phone bill, innit I thought I would carry on in the same vein as last month and say a little more
• Title Slide "goto considered not particularly harmful: defect analysis
• D3: Sacred software cows: software development is high-tech
• Help, I need somebody ... (not just anybody, a firewire expert) My fault. There I go getting all upbeat for a whole month and then I have the
• How to do risk assessments so you don't get asked again
• Please wait or please slit your throat As I have written at length on over the years, the systematic production of
• Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics THE ACOUSTIC FIELD OF MARINE SEISMIC AIRGUNS
• AIRGUN ARRAY AND DEPTH TRANSPONDER SIGNATURES AS MIGHT BE HEARD BY ODONTOCETI
• A mechanism for the invasion of a sub-tropical high by a hurricane: Part 1, static analysis
• Only the ones who are left don't do it for the money I notice that the number of voices commenting on the looming skills crisis in IT
• Embedded system paranoia: TI OMAP (ARM9) Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
• Safer Language Subsets: an overview and a case history, MISRA C.
• Basic computer security Les Hatton
• "TestingembeddedCprograms: Ameasurement basedapproachtobalancing
• How to build successful complex systems: lessons from open source
• Embedded system paranoia: gcc 3.4.x, PowerPC and Intel desktop
• Replacing Windows with Linux Working with a neighbour's XP machine this week trying to sort out the endless
• OA KW OOD COMPUTING -SURV IV A L A ND A V OIDA NCE STRA TEGIES FOR SOFTW A RE FA ILURE "Testing:theinfluenceof complexity,coupling
• What is a formal method, (and what is an informal method) ?
• Title Slide European Software Testing Congress, May 2000
• 1946-2010: Worldwide Hurricane Activity Les Hatton
• D3: Software -PC'd off by your PC ? This is the opening article in a regular series on the general subject of software
• D3: The avoidable, the unavoidable and the unforeseeable
• High-Integrity Software, Computation and the Scientific Method Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University, UK
• Forensic Software Engineering and not before time I'm writing this article in August because I am jetting off to a conference in
• Title Slide "Javelins: throwing, training and associated injuries"
• How to tie yourself in knots with words: the student loan scheme
• Title Slide "High-Integrity Software, Computation and
• Title Slide "Testing: some answers but lots more questions"
• Never exchange money in UK airports June 11, 2010
• OA KW OOD COMPUTING -SURV IV A L A ND A V OIDA NCE STRA TEGIES FOR SOFTW A RE FA ILURE "WhyisLinuxsoreliable?"
• Title Slide "Memorability and Invisibility
• Title Slide "Forensic Software Engineering
• Let the Games begin ... Hold your collective breath dear readers as 2012 fever takes hold, it may not be
• Title Slide "Scientific Computation and the Scientific Method
• Title Slide "How to write scientific papers and get them accepted
• A measurement based safer subset of ISO C suitable for embedded system development
• Bureaucracy, Safety and Software: a potentially lethal cocktail
• Garbage in, money out One of the most consistently successful ways of screwing up computer programs
• Title Slide "The Power of Modern Testing
• An implementation of a word stemming algorithm for English
• Coordinate transformations and two exact solutions of the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes
• So who says development is easy ? Although I frequently and I feel justifiably complain about the quality of some
• Do Formal Methods Improve Code Quality? Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Les Hatton
• "TheMISRA-Copenconformancesuite: workinprogress"
• Football crazy, Football Math: A grumpy person's guide to football and its mathematics
• Supermarket but inferiorIT I sometimes think that computer scientists should get out more and see just what
• Disconnecting for Health This article is about fallibility and computer systems provoked by the gently
• Title Slide "The characteristic shape of software"
• Title Slide "Trebuchets, warbows and optimising the javelin throw"
• 1999-2009: Has the intensity and frequency of hurricanes increased ?
• Title Slide "The role of empiricism in improving the reliability of
• Title Slide "E-mail Forensics"
• D3: The re-use of re-use Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Not a good year, but not surprising First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Just remember to
• Spreadsheets: 'spread' as in 'middleage ...' Spreadsheets are interesting applications. When the spreadsheet Supercalc
• Javelin throwing the appliance of science Preparation and technique are vital but on the day, you might need to know your physics
• Estimating source lines of code from object code: Windows and Embedded Control Systems
• A symmetric cipher not requiring prior sender/receiver key agreement
• The Bower of Tabel One of my serious research interests as a computer scientist is the
• Title Slide "Computer Science Education or Computer
• Trouble with help lines In this article, I was going to write about the experiences of dumping Windows
• Title Slide "Building on success
• XP recovery and fairies in the garden As you may know by now, I am a staunch supporter of Open Source alternatives to
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1999. Submitted to STQE 2/00. Page .. 1 "Linux and the CMM"
• Click, click, click, was that your train sir ? As a change from all our security woes, I have been suffering from unnecessarily
• A not entirely tongue in cheek metric for Art 04 Sept 2003
• Embedded system paranoia: STAR 12 Computing Laboratory, University of Kent
• Buy me and stop one I was idly musing through a computer magazine or two this week when it struck me
• Seek and ye shall find I promised I would be more upbeat this month so apart from a minor go at British
• Unifying power-law behaviour, functionality and defect distribution in general software
• Digital television: quality matches content I often find myself trying to anticipate what the world would be like if
• Title Slide "Designing and implementing Efficient Tests and
• A case study in complex systems evolution: consumer price obfuscation and mobile/cell
• Defects, Scientific Computation and the Scientific Method
• Zero-defect software and other figments of the imagination I had a choice of juicy failures to talk about this week. I finally decided to
• TitleSlide 2004-" SomenotesonRisk"
• The devil and the deep blue sea August 2001
• Laboratory Computer Software: Fitness for CISM, University of Kingston
• Static inspection tapping the wheels of software Les Hatton, Programming Research Ltd., U.K.
• Title Slide "Software quality and the
• Boring but expensive I note that the Inland Revenue appears to have lost control of its grand IT
• Title Slide "Dross ex machina: A long hard look at the influence
• Title Slide "Avoiding expensive IT project and product failures
• Title Slide "To what extent can we rely on the results
• Title Slide "The fault detectability domain
• Budgie on a swing I had to pinch myself several times this week. As the computing industry
• On the conservation of software defect CISM, University of Kingston
• D3: Sacred software cows: maintenance Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Kile, Latex and tensor mathematics Les Hatton, CISM, Kingston University
• UKSIM' 99,7-9April,1999 "Theinfluenceof softwaredefects
• Title Slide "Software Defects, Scientific Computation
• Power-laws, persistence and the distribution of information in software systems
• Persistence correlation analysis as an aid in searching for rare but significant textual
• The promise of scripting languages for business process automation Spurred on by all the dire security predictions recently on the use of Internet
• "eRiskandeBenefit:theeConomics ofsoftwaretesting"
• Title Slide "Javelins: throwing, training and associated injuries"
• Language subsetting in an industrial context: a comparison of MISRA C 1998 and MISRA C
• Optimising the javelin throw in the presence of prevailing winds
• Title Slide "ForensicSoftwareEngineering
• Copyright, Les Hatton, Programming Research Ltd., 1994-96; for IEEE Software, 27/5/96. Page .. 1 "Why is the defect density curve U-shaped with
• Title Slide "Spam, Scams and Filtering
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• Some things to watch out for when using PHP and Javascript when building websites
• An empirical relationship between surface reflection coefficient and source array amplitude
• Title Slide "The role of the scientific method in improving
• Title Slide 2008-"Some notes on IT Law"
• Title Slide 2003-"Five variations on the theme
• Embedded system paranoia: IAR Compiler with MPS430, (low power mixed signal RISC)
• Title: The Ariane 5 bug and a few lessons Author: Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, U.K. and the Computing Laboratory,
• Title Slide "Optimising airgun signatures for different seismic
• A personal reflection on software engineering February 27, 2011
• Title Slide "A linear interpolant model for the pre-dinner speech"
• Title Slide "Failure patterns
• Title Slide "Safer Language Subsets"
• How accurately do engineers predict software maintenance tasks ?
• Embedded system paranoia: results from real CISM, Kingston University
• Salmon penne and the Salmon of Doubt August 1, 2006
• The Chimera of Software Quality Les Hatton, 15-Sep-2006
• Title Slide "Forensic Software Engineering
• Modulated power-law behaviour in Stirling's approximation
• D3: Object-Orientation and other mythologies Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Title Slide FOSS systems: Why do we not use them more ?
• Failure-aware programming: and introduction and some predictions
• Title Slide "A measurement perspective on testing"
• Snap, snap, bugger, no images ... Software testing is a much maligned activity and software testers rarely enjoy
• Predicting the total number of faults using parallel code inspections
• Title Slide "The broadband acoustic output of
• World championships javelin, 2005: (BBC discovers we have no athletes either)
• Fortran, C or C++ for geophysical software development ? Les Hatton1
• D3: A Tale of Two PC's: a Mac and a P90 Les Hatton, lesh@oakcomp.co.uk
• Testing the value of checklists in code inspections CISM, University of Kingston
• The Implementation and Organisation of Work Arrays in Numerical Algorithms
• Title Slide Computer says ...
• STAR' 99East,May10-141999 "Testingisnot aphase"
• Title Slide "Specifications: Sometimes Safety-Critical Systems
• Some comments on development testing Kingston University
• Les Hatton, Oakwood Computing, 1997, v1.5. Submitted to IEEE Software 12/98. Page .. 1 "Does OO really match the way we think ? "
• Title: Failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems
• Confuse your way to a small fortune First of all a big thank you to fellow rail sufferers who contacted me after
• On the Evolution of Unnatural Language CISM, Kingston University