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by lemonwaterlime 388 days ago
Software engineers should use formal risk management tools like FMEA (failure mode & effects analysis) like engineers in any other discipline.
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Some software engineers should use FMEA or such. Probably more than think that they should. But not all - it's overkill for much software. There should be an informed decision made, based on the kind of software it is... but maybe that's just an extremely informal FMEA.