The Embedded.com website today published "2028 - Software quality: economically important & standardized" by GrammaTech's Paul Anderson. This article imagines a future in which software developers can be sued for damages due to software failures, and describes the heightened awareness and use of static analysis techniques that might arise in such a world.
See the article on the Embedded.com website
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Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions, and government
agencies. The staff includes thirteen researchers with PhDs in programming
languages and program analysis. More information about GrammaTech can
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