Scott Anderson-466019 (1/23/2013)
Ok, not a convincing enough argument? How about the Internet. The biggest usage of software by humans and the major outages have been caused by what or whom? Human operator error.But back to your point: Software mistakes affect many people. Why is that? How have been become so dependent on software when it has so many problems and bugs? Because software bugs are a stereotype.
Really, the amount of problems compared to working solutions is incomparable, but we pick on and declare the end of days when something doesn’t go as *we* expected. “Expected”, how many times has a new staff member or college not done things as we expected, but to write an article about that? That’s common knowledge and expected, so who cares!?!
I agree that comparing human mistakes to software mistakes isn’t fair, as humans make so many more.
I'm lost with your argument. Sorry, just not making too much sense to me. Building better software really doesn't have much to do with some of the human errors you mentioned. I really think it is about writing software that does what is expected when properly used. And as we know, there are users that don't use software the way it was intended many times. If you can trap for those "mistakes" and handle them, then you are ahead of the curve in many respects.