1. Can you explain the PDCA cycle and where testing fits in? Software testing is an important part of the software development process. In normal software development there are four important steps‚ also referred to‚ in short‚ as the PDCA (Plan‚ Do‚ Check‚ Act) cycle. Let’s review the four steps in detail. Plan: Define the goal and the plan for achieving that goal. Do/Execute: Depending on the plan strategy decided during the plan stage we do execution accordingly in this phase. Check: Check/Test
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Global Software Industry The world software market exceeded $265 billion in 2010‚ according to MarketLine. Market growth is expected to exceed 6% yearly between 2010 and 2015‚ bringing the market to almost $357 billion. Home use and general business applications lead the market at almost $64 billion‚ accounting for around a quarter of the overall market‚ which encompasses systems and application software. The former includes network and database management‚ operating systems and other systems
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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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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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which Colfax products are excelled. The five major business units of Colfax were former leading independent and highly regarded pump companies from Germany‚ France‚ Sweden‚ Netherlands and the United States. 1. What problems Colfax faces in this case? In the year 2008‚ all the heavy industrial manufacturers faced an important business development issue across the world‚ one of them was Colfax. The reason behind the issue was the rapidly rising thirst for oil from markets like Asia‚ Middle East
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WHAT IS A SOFTWARE A set of instructions that cause a computer to perform one or more tasks. The set of instructions is often called a program or‚ if the set is particularly large and complex‚ a system. Computers cannot do any useful work without instructions from software; thus a combination of software and hardware (the computer) is necessary to do any computerized work. A program must tell the computer each of a set of minuscule tasks to perform‚ in a framework of logic‚ such that the computer
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About the Lima Tire Plant Located in Lima‚ Ohio‚ the plant building encompassed over 1.5 million square feet and was situated on 128 acres of land. About 1‚120 people were employed at the Lima location: 970 were hourly employees and 150 were salaried employees. The hourly personnel at the plant were unionized by the United Steelworkers (USW)‚ which had merged with the United Rubber Workers in 1995. The Lima Plant had undergone a $100 million expansion and modernization effort in 2000‚ which enabled
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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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Software Requirements Specification Template The following annotated template shall be used to complete the Software Requirements Specification (SRS) assignment of WSU-TC CptS 322. The instructor must approve any modifications to the overall structure of this document. Template Usage: Text contained within angle brackets (‘’) shall be replaced by your project-specific information and/or details. For example‚ will be replaced with either ‘Smart Home’ or ‘Sensor Network’. Italicized text is
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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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