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Dave Parnas

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Dave Parnas

Computers

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Software often contains hidden problems that only become clear when it is actually used in real situations. These issues need to be discovered through repeated failures before the software can be improved to work reliably.

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