You should read this 1994 SciAm article (Software's Chronic Crisis, SciAm, September 1994). There are many copies of it on the web. It's old but it's still the

You should read this 1994 SciAm article (Software's Chronic Crisis, SciAm, September 1994). There are many copies of it on the web. It's old but it's still the best summary of the problem as it puts the software issue into context with other fields of engineering. These links were the first I found and they've tested OK. The first is an html version, the others are PDFs with the last being the best quality (in color). If they don't work just search for the title and year. http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/SciAmGibbs/SciAmGibbs.html http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/SciAmGibbs/... http://sarec.nd.edu/courses/SE2017/Week1-TheSoftwareCrisis.pdf http://sarec.nd.edu/courses/SE2017/Week1-TheSoftwareCrisis.p... https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wayt-Gibbs/publication/247573088_Software's_Chronic_Crisis/links/0046353b4cb57cc197000000/Softwares-Chronic-Crisis.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wayt-Gibbs/publication/...