Case Studies of Most Common and Severe Types of Software System Failure

Today software system is an integral part of each and every business model, be it core product manufacturing, banking, healthcare, insurance, aviation, hospitality, social networking, shopping, e-commerce, education or any other domain. If any business has to be leveraged and simplified then software has to be integrated with the main stream business of any organization. Designing and development of any software system requires huge capital, a lot of time, intellectuals, domain expertise, tools and infrastructure. Though the software industry has matured quiet a lot in past decade, however percentage of software failure has also increased, which led to the loss of capital, time, good-will, loss of information and in some cases severe failures of critical applications also lead to the loss of lives. Software could fail due to faults injected in various stages of software or product development life cycle starting from project initiation until deployment. This paper describes the case study of most common and severe types of software system failures in Software Industry.