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brittle
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adj. Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in
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operating environment or configuration, or by any minor tweak to the
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software itself. Also, any system that responds inappropriately and
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disastrously to abnormal but expected external stimuli; e.g., a file system
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that is usually totally scrambled by a power failure is said to be brittle.
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This term is often used to describe the results of a research effort that
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were never intended to be robust, but it can be applied to commercial
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software, which (due to closed-source development) displays the quality far
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more often than it ought to. Oppose robust.
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