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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INTRODUCTION Valve software is a successful entertainment and software company with over 300 employees. Valve software wanted to create a working environment that empowered their employees and gave them the freedom to be creative. What they have achieved is a very successful company that operates on a ‘flat’ structure where there are no managers or supervisors to report to and all employees are equals. “The company tries to keep its structure flat to remove or reduce barriers between the employees
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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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By determine the boundaries between push and pull strategy the company is identifying the supply chain stages that should operate in a make -to stock chain and what part of the remaining supply chain stages should operate in a make-to-order strategy. This is done by pushing inventory to less costly location in the supply chain. This helps the company save money and efficient their supply chain. All supply chains must be a combination of push and pull processes‚ but it is different where in the supply
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TRACK SOFTWARE‚ INC I SYNOPSIS Track Software‚ Inc. is a company created and built by Mr. Stanley Booker‚ CPA who spent nights and weekends in developing a sophisticated cost-accounting software program that became the company’s initial product. As the firm grows‚ Stanley planned to develop and expand the software product‚ which will streamline the accounting processes of medium to large sized manufacturers. In the first 2 years of operation‚ some financial problems occur‚ so he sold
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3.1. Pipes and Filters In a pipe and filter style each component has a set of inputs and a set of outputs. A component reads streams of data on its inputs and produces streams of data on its outputs‚ delivering a complete instance of the result in a standard order. This is usually accomplished by applying a local transformation to the input streams and computing incrementally so output begins before input is consumed. Hence components are termed “filters”. The connectors of this style serve
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Project Management - MegaCity Software What is the major problem facing MegaCity Software? First of all‚ MegaCity Software is a « young » company which has developed MegaMine 2.0‚ a successful software which has enforced the company‚ taking in account it has known updates and extensions. Regarding its market and its internal organization‚ MegaCity Software is facing strategic‚ managerial‚ and development (meaning extension‚ growth) issue. Apparently‚ the company has financial resources to keep
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Custom software (also known as bespoke software) is software that is specially developed for some specific organization or other user. As such‚ it can be contrasted with the use of software packages developed for the mass market‚ such as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software‚ or existing free software. Custom software can be developed by an in-house software development group‚ or be commissioned from a software house or independent software developer. Since custom software is developed for
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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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TORA Temporary-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) – An Operations Research Software TORA is an algorithm i.e. a mathematical set of instructions or programs (mathematical-software). It is an optimization system in the area of operations research which is very easy to use. Further‚ TORA is menu-driven and Windows-based which makes it very user friendly. The software can be executed in automated or tutorial mode. The automated mode reports the final solution of the problem‚ usually in the standard
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