Principles of Antifragile Software

@article{Martin2017PrinciplesOA,
  title={Principles of Antifragile Software},
  author={Monperrus Martin},
  journal={Companion to the first International Conference on the Art, Science and Engineering of Programming},
  year={2017}
}
  • Monperrus Martin
  • Published 11 April 2014
  • Computer Science
  • Companion to the first International Conference on the Art, Science and Engineering of Programming
There are many software engineering concepts and techniques related to software errors. But is this enough? Have we already completely explored the software engineering noosphere with respect to errors and reliability? In this paper, I discuss an novel concept, called "software antifragility", that is unconventional and has the capacity to improve the way we engineer errors and dependability in a disruptive manner. This paper first discusses the foundations of software antifragilty, from… 
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