Presentation: "The Ethics of Error-Prevention"
Time: Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Conference Hall 3
Part of being a professional developer is being responsible. We're charged with the task of writing software that is reliable, sturdy, and trustworthy, but we also know that we don't use all of the tools at our disposal. In theory, we could all use a "clean room" process, write tests and extensive preconditions for our code, and choose languages which make errors less likely, but across the industry we don't do any of these things uniformly. Does this mean that the majority of developers are irresponsible, or does it mean that our responsibilities are contextual?
In this talk, we'll look at error-prevention in the short history of our discipline and consider our possible futures.
