Resumen
The article focuses on needs for computer software practices that can reduce errors in software programming. Every computer user has his or her own story of the unreliability of modern software. Many of these problems are minor time-wasting annoyances, but as computer applications enter more and more aspects of human life, it becomes more important that the software relied upon works well. Some of the measures enlisted include systematic design practices, good programming style, safer programming languages and better testing before release. Future software development should increasingly be oriented toward making software more self-aware transparent and adaptive. Software developers will have better tools for systematically finding out where errors are and the software itself will help them in correcting the errors. Interacting with buggy software will be a cooperative problem-solving activity of the end user, the system and the developer. Given the competitive marketplace, developers are often pressured to come up with innovations. Products featuring reliability get edged-out by products offering more features.