Information about Defensive Design
Defensive design is the practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project or undertaking. Essentially, it is the practice of anticipating all possible ways that an end-user could misuse a device, and designing the device so as to make such misuse impossible, or to minimise the negative consequences. For example, if it is important that a plug be inserted into a socket in a particular orientation, the socket and plug will be designed so that it is physically impossible to insert the plug incorrectly. Power sockets are often keyed in such a manner, to prevent the transposition of live and neutral.
Defensive design in software engineering is called defensive programming. Murphy's law is a light-hearted statement of the need for defensive design.
This has also been called "Designing for Drunks."
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.
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Defensive design in software engineering is called defensive programming. Murphy's law is a light-hearted statement of the need for defensive design.
This has also been called "Designing for Drunks."
contingency is the status of facts that are not logically necessarily true or false. Contingency is opposed to necessity: a contingent act is an act which could have not been, an act which is not necessary (could not have not been).
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Design, usually considered in the context of the applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other such creative endeavors, is used both as a noun and a verb. As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or
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Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.[1] The term software engineering
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Defensive programming is a form of defensive design intended to ensure the continuing function of a piece of software in spite of unforeseeable usage of said software. The idea can be viewed as reducing or eliminating the prospect of Murphy's Law having effect.
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For other uses, see Murphy's Law (disambiguation).
Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.
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