Software Failures: A Review of Causes and Solutions

Abstract

Software failure occurs when the developed software swerves from the expected behaviours or could not execute the task it was developed to perform. Software failures could lead to different degrees of harm to organizations or individual businesses, which include but not limited to financial losses, embarrassments and damage to organizations’ reputations. This study reviewed and analyzed several related works in this domain and put more lights on the factors that make software either fail or become inoperative. From the various analyses, it is discovered that failures occur due to schedule pressure, deficient requirements, lack of technical skillset, unrealistic requirements and lack of discrete allocation of tasks. It is therefore imperative to the new and existing organizations to understand these causes and devise a realistic measure to ensure their software perform adequately.