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 Industry By N.Kranthi Bhushan 1201010061 Software Engineering-B Software Industry The software industry includes businesses for development‚ maintenance and publication of software that are using different business models‚ mainly either "license/maintenance based" (On Premise) or "cloud based" (such as Saas‚ PaaS‚ IaaS etc etc) . The industry also includes software services‚ such as training‚ documentation‚ and consulting. History The word "software" had been coined as
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and Electrical Engineering Classification of Software Testing Tools Based on the Software Testing Methods Khaled M. Mustafa‚ Rafa E. Al-Qutaish‚ Mohammad I. Muhairat Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan‚ Airport Street‚ Amman‚ Jordan Abstract During the software development life cycle‚ testing is highly needed to assure the quality of the software process and product. For many years‚ researchers and practitioners came-up with a variety of software tools to automate the testing process. In this
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Software Testing Carnegie Mellon University 18-849b Dependable Embedded Systems Spring 1999 Authors: Jiantao Pan mailto:%20jpan@cmu.edu Abstract: Software testing is any activity aimed at evaluating an attribute or capability of a program or system and determining that it meets its required results. [Hetzel88] Although crucial to software quality and widely deployed by programmers and testers‚ software testing still remains an art‚ due to limited understanding of the principles of software
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SOFTWARE ENTREPRENURSHIP blah blah Composition II blah blah November 16‚ 2012 Software Entrepreneurship A software is a program that can be run on a computer system. Over the past few decades‚ software has become less of an obscurity and more of an absolute necessity. Modern societies function heavily under the use of computing and software systems. Organizations such as Schools‚ financial institutions‚ small business‚ large corporations are heavily ran on software systems. Software is
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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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Software Crisis Software crisis was a term used in the early days of computing science. The term was used to describe the impact of rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems which could be tackled. In essence‚ it refers to the difficulty of writing correct‚ understandable‚ and verifiable computer programs. The roots of the software crisis are complexity‚ expectations‚ and change. The major cause of the software crisis is that the machines have become several orders
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Application Software John Hassler Professor C. Mason Computer Information systems 204 September 13‚ 1996 Computer systems contain both hard and software. Hardware is any tangible item in a computer system‚ like the system unit‚ keyboard‚ or printer. Software‚ or a computer program‚ is the set of instruction that direct the computer to perform a task. Software falls into one of two categories: system software and application software. System software controls the operation of the computer hardware;
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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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Software crisis is a term used in the early days of software engineering. The term was used to describe the impact of rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems which could be tackled. This was with regards to the difficulty in writing correct‚ understandable and verifiable_ computer programs_. VERIFIABLE:-With regards to hardware and software systems‚ a formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of intended algorithms underlying a system
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