Quality in the Software Development Industry of Sri Lanka Sahan Jayawarna A.T. Fonseka Abstract The software development industry of Sri Lanka has grown rapidly during recent years. However‚ the quality of software products has become a critical issue as shown in the increase in software defects and associated solutions for those problems. This study aimed at understanding the critical factors underlying software product quality. It was based on a survey of ten software development companies
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Software Piracy: A Worldwide Problem Software piracy is defined as the illegal copying of software for commercial or personal gain. Software companies have tried many methods to prevent piracy‚ with varying degrees of success. Several agencies like the Software Publishers Association and the Business Software Alliance have been formed to combat both worldwide and domestic piracy. Software piracy is an unresolved‚ worldwide problem‚ costing millions of dollars in lost revenue. Software companies
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probabilistic approach to finding failure-causing inputs based on Bayesian estimation. According to our probabilistic insights of software testing‚ the test case generation algorithms are developed by Markov chain Mote Carlo (MCMC) methods. Dissimilar to existing random testing schemes such as adaptive random testing‚ our approach can also utilize the prior knowledge on software testing. In experiments‚ we compare effectiveness of our MCMC-based random testing with both ordinary random testing and adaptive
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This essay is designed in two parts. The first part of the essay will attempt to explain ethics in a general context and evaluate the reasons why we need ethics when people undertake research. The second part of the essay will focus on the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ by Zimbardo in 1971 and critically analyse its relation to and impact on ethics. Ethics is involved in many parts of human life. One example is to guide humans to make decisions (Darwall‚ 1998). Humans make decisions because these
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Slide set 1 11 CS-Sec I & II Engr. Maria Shaikh Shaikh.maria@rocketmail.com Course Structure and Contact Info Schedule 4 Classes (Theory) Exams 2/26/2014 2 Sessional Tests Presentation Assignment Final Exams Engr. Maria Shaikh 2 Relevant Literature + Lecture Foils Sommerville I.‚ "Software Engineering"‚ 8th Edition or Latest‚ Pearson Education. Pressman R.S.‚ "Software Practitioner’s Approach”‚ 7th McGraw-Hill Inc.
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The actual number of consultant hours exceeded the expected number of consultant hours. Then Jenkins subtracted the actual amount of hours from the expected amount of hours and then multiplied by the expected labor price of $90. Jenkins found that Software
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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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The Stanford Experiment is a study of experimental psychology conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 on the effects of the prison situation. It was created with students playing the roles of guards and prisoners. It was intended to study the behavior of ordinary people in such a context and effect was to show that this was the situation rather that the personality of the participants who was at the origin of behaviours sometimes opposite the values professed by participants before the start of the
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traditional software metrics which could be applied to object–oriented programming and a set of object–oriented metrics (i.e. those designed specifically for object–oriented programming). Given the central role that software development plays in the delivery and application of information technology‚ managers are increasingly focusing on process improvement in the software development area. This demand has spurred the provision of a number of new and/or improved approaches to software development
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Computer software engineers use the basics and techniques of computer science‚ engineering‚ and mathematical analysis to the design‚ development‚ testing‚ and evaluation of the software and systems that enable computers to perform their many different tasks. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ computer software engineers are projected to be one of the fastest growing occupations over the 200212 period. The starting salaries for computer engineers with a bachelor’s degree can be higher
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