The Software Crisis • The most visible symptoms of the software crisis are o Late delivery‚ over budget o Product does not meet specified requirements o Inadequate documentation • Some observations on the software crisis o “A malady that has carried on this long must be called normal” (Booch‚ p. 8) o Software system requirements are moving targets o There may not be enough good developers around to create all the new software that users need o A significant portion of developers’ time must often
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APPLICATION SOFTWARE- is all the computer software that causes a computer to perform useful tasks (compare with computer viruses) beyond the running of the computer itself. A. Programming Language-is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine‚ particularly computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely. Definition of programming language * The description of a programming
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The Fraunhofer IESE Series on Software Engineering The Fraunhofer IESE Series on Software Engineering Albert Endres & Dieter Rombach ‘giving the reader a proven basis for engineering complex software systems’ A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering Empirical Observations‚ Laws and Theories The book is structured around the software development lifecycle. It begins with requirements definition and goes on to maintenance and withdrawal. In different process models‚ these
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Systems Development Lesson 1 Software Quality 1 Software quality management • Concerned with ensuring that the required level of quality is achieved in a software product. • Involves defining appropriate quality standards and procedures and ensuring that these are followed. • Should aim to develop a ‘quality culture’ where quality is seen as everyone’s responsibility. 2 What is quality? • Quality‚ simplistically‚ means that a product should meet its specification. • This
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Harvard Business Case: "Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape‚ Yahoo!‚ NetDyanamics‚ and Microsoft". 2. What are the similarities and differences between the four approaches to product development? What drives these differences? Type Netscape Yahoo Net Dynamic Microsoft Development Methodology RAD Phased Agile RAD Prototype Agile RAD Throwaway Prototype Waterfall RUP SDLC Approach (BA/Interactive design) Interactive design -Goal oriented
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manual process in terms of recording the information of the client by writing it down to an index card and storing it in fill in cabinet. They also have a notification for those clients who can avail their discount and free treatment via SMS. The team 3GB was decided to make a computerize Record Management and SMS Reward‚ to be able to enhance the manual system that Verneeka had. This proposed system provides an easier way in managing the records to be more secure and convenient to use and by the
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guaranteed to operate correctly. Although software processes have existed for many years now‚ domain knowledge should be applied throughout every phase of the software development process. An appreciation of the assumptions underlying software engineering can lead to a better understanding of the applicability of structure and quality of work produced. Software plays an important role in business decision-making‚ and because of its growing importance‚ assumptions should not be excluded. Its seems increasingly
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Google Survey Software Suvey software to create surveys gather data and create reports www.surveymethods.com Results of the fifth annual benchmark survey on global software piracy were released recently‚ highlighting the serious impact of copyright infringement to the software industry. Piracy losses exceeded $12 billion worldwide in 1999 and topped $59 billion during the past five years. The survey‚ conducted by an independent research firm‚ was commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA)
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hardware replacement decision. Answer the following questions on hardware deferral What is the probability of postponing hardware purchase for a year? Hint (a year has 12 months or four 3-month periods). 3 Points Probability of postponed purchase (A) for 3 months P(A) = .6 Probability of making purchase (B) P(A) = 1-P(A) .4 Probability of not making a hardware purchase for 1 year P(A)4 .1296 Hardware Cost Saving if postponed by a year 30% 1 Point What is the average annual hardware
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IS CHINA A THREAT IN INDIAN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY:- From my point of view I belived that it is rather posing a opportunity instead of threat .Matter of concern is how we r taking a lesson from China about its a rapidly growing economy.Everybody r crying for its prodct which r very cheap at the same time they are as good as Japanese product in terms of quality. We should focus on how china is producing such a quality product at so much cheap rate.When we became the part of globalization we expected
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