Betrayal! Corruption! Software engineering? Industry experts Johann Rost and Robert L. Glass explore the seamy underbelly of software engineering in this timely report on and analysis of the prevalance of subversion, lying, hacking, and espionage on every level of software project management. Based on the authors' original research and augmented by frank discussion and insights from other well-respected figures, The Dark Side of Software Engineering goes where other management studies fear to tread -- a corporate ...
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Betrayal! Corruption! Software engineering? Industry experts Johann Rost and Robert L. Glass explore the seamy underbelly of software engineering in this timely report on and analysis of the prevalance of subversion, lying, hacking, and espionage on every level of software project management. Based on the authors' original research and augmented by frank discussion and insights from other well-respected figures, The Dark Side of Software Engineering goes where other management studies fear to tread -- a corporate environment where schedules are fabricated, trust is betrayed, millions of dollars are lost, and there is a serious need for the kind of corrective action that this book ultimately proposes.
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Very good. Ex-library. x, 305 pages; 24 cm The dark side of software engineering: evil on computing projects 3 reviews Authors: Johann Rost, Robert L. Glass Summary: This is not a book about software project failure, or about prescriptive thinking about how to build software better. This is a book about the evil things that happen on computing and software projects---what the kinds of evil are, how they manifest themselves, and what the good guys can do about them Print Book, English, 2011 Edition: View all formats and editions Publisher: John Wiley & Sons [for] IEEE Computer Society, Hoboken, N.J., 2011 Physical Description: x, 305 pages; 24 cm ISBN: 9780470597170, 9780470909942, 9780470909959, 0470597178, 0470909943, 0470909951 OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 664324106 Subjects: Computer software industry Moral and ethical aspects DJ Sabotage Ge?nie logiciel Aspect moral Logiciels Industrie Aspect moral Misserfolg Projekt Sabotage Society Software Engineering Software engineering Management Software engineering Moral and ethical aspects Additional Physical Form Entry: Online version: Dark side of software engineering. Rost, Johann. Contents: Foreword / Linda Rising Introduction. What is the dark side? Part 1. Dark side issues 1. Subversion Introductory case studies and anecdotes The survey: impact of subversive stakeholders on software projects Selected responses A follow-up to the survey: some hypotheses and related survey findings 2. Lying Introductory case studies and anecdotes Incidents of lying: the survey Qualitative survey responses on lying What can be done abut lying? The questionnaire used in the survey 3. Hacking Case studies of attacks and biographies of hackers Cyber terrorism and government-sponsored hacking The hacker subculture How a hacker is identified Time line of a typical malware attack Hacker economy: how does a hacker make money? Social engineering A lingering question Late-breaking news 4. Theft of information Introduction Case studies How do the victims find out that their secrets are stolen? Intellectual property protection Open versus closed source 5. Espionage Introduction What is espionage? Case studies Cyber warfare 6. Disgruntled employees and sabotage Introduction and background Disgruntled employee data issues Disgruntled employee software issues Disgruntled employee system issues What to do about disgruntled employee acts Sabotage 7. Whistle-blowing A hypothetical scenario Whistle-blowing and software engineering More case studies and anecdotes Appendix: Practical implications of the research into whistle-blowing Part 2. Viewpoints on dark side issues 8. Opinions, predictions and beliefs Automated crime / Donn B. Parker Let's play make believe / Karl E Wiegers Dark, light, or just another shade of grey? / Les Hatton Rational software developers as pathological code hackers / Norman Fenton 9. Personal anecdotes An officer and a gentleman confronts the dark side / Grady Booch Less carrot and more stick / June Verner "Them and us": dispatches from the virtual software team trenches / Valentine Casey What is it to lie on a software project? / Robert N. Britcher "Merciless control instrument" and the mysterious missing fax / A.H. (anonymous) Forest of Arden / David Alan Grier Hard-headed hardware hit man / Will Tracz A lighthearted anecdote / Eugene Farmer Conclusions
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