Also, this point opens the question of the breadth of applicability of a given software artifact: some software does only a very specific thing, and so can be thoroughly verified within its single domain, while other software is very generic and so is much harder to verify across domains.
The question of the "manner in which an existing software architecture affects requirements decision-making" is considered important in the research community; however, to our knowledge, this issue has not been scientifically explored.
First, there is the question of getting the software to run on as wide a variety of computers as possible, so as to maximise the number of machines available.
As a result, F.B.I. officials decided not to send the issue on to a special White House panel that reviews the question of whether software vulnerabilities discovered by American intelligence officials should be shared with the software designer to enhance security.
The question of "unauthorized software" on System 9 and Windows XP was plainly moot.
Jon Evans poses the question of whether software engineers get enough respect or not, and Jordan Crook gives you the noPhone, designed to alleviate the anxiety that comes along with not having a phone (but really, phone separation anxiety is a real thing). .
Whitaker explored the question of why software testing is hard (6).
Deployment means making a specific piece of software available for use in a given computational environment, whereas distribution addresses the question of packaging software in a way that facilitates deployment.
Then, there's the questions of the developers of the software that has made the Mac the computer-of-choice for so many devoted users especially designers, videographers and everyone for whom style is as important as substance.
Even if I do not agree with many claims made in the paper, I do think the question of whether scientific software engineering (or even some scientific domains) need special software engineering processes is an interesting one (albeit maybe not a new one).
