function indicated by the bar‚ the software treated normal variations of velocity as if they were serious‚ causing faulty corrections that sent the rocket off course. 2. Hartford Coliseum Collapse (1978) Cost: $70 million‚ plus another $20 million damage to the local economy Disaster: Just hours after thousands of fans had left the Hartford Coliseum‚ the steel-latticed roof collapsed under the weight of wet snow. Cause: The programmer of the CAD software used to design the coliseum incorrectly
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DATABASE APPLICATION SOFTWARE A database application is a computer program whose primary purpose is entering and retrieving information from a computer-managed database. Early examples of database applications were accounting systems and airline reservations systems‚ such as SABRE‚ developed starting in 1957. A characteristic of modern database applications is that they facilitate simultaneous updates and queries from multiple users. Systems in the 1970s might have accomplished this by having
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Prof. Lin Guo FIN 417 HBS Case: Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS Due date: April 12‚ 2012 Instructions: This case should be done individually. You should prepare a written analysis‚ and hand in two copies of your analysis on April 12 in class. Only hard copies of the case analysis are accepted. I will submit one of the copies to the Dean’s office for assessment purpose. Each student should also bring his/her own copy of the write-up to class‚ as well as the case itself‚ so that we can refer
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SPRINGBOARD FINANCIAL SERVICES | DEVELOPMENT OF LOAN APPLICATION SOFTWARE (LAS) | A CASE STUDY FOR SPRING BOARD FINANCIAL SERVICES | MICHAEL YARTEY AND SETSOAFIA O.M. SELASSIE [Pick the date] | CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND A good definition of microfinance as provided by Robinson‚ Marguerite S. is; ‘Microfinance refers to small-scale financial services for both credits and deposits that are provided to people who farm or fish or herd; operate small or microenterprises
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______________________________________________ 2 ______________________________________________ - Operating systems ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ - Application software ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ - Multimedia software ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ - Storage devices ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________
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Experiences in Delivering Project with Zero Defects Srikanth Rao Usual Reactions on Zero Defects in Software Projects “Are you kidding me?. It is a miracle. How can we expect zero defects in software development? It is harder to define‚ harder to test‚ harder to predict results. Bugs is a perfectly normal thing‚ we can’t bring them to zero. But we should minimize them using all possible ways. ”The Last Bug is a mirage” Like any other PM‚ I started with a “Zero Defects Mentality” which
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Research Paper Free Open Source Software also known as FOSS has fared pretty good since the Microsoft posted a high-level summary of 235 patents that were allegedly violated in 2006. Since this scenario happen FOSS has grown and partner up with big name companies. In an interview that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that ”We live in a world where we honor‚ and support the honoring of‚ intellectual property‚ FOSS patrons are going to have to play by the same rules as the rest of the business. What
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example -- viewing objects and operations from the Calendar Tool. Summary observations about the analysis and specification phases of the software. The goal of requirements modeling is to build an abstract model of the user-level requirements. There is very beneficial feedback between the requirements analysis and specification phases of the software development process. Modeling the concrete GUI? Some practical benefits of formal specification. Formal specification with preconditions
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SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION 1. Introduction The purpose of this section is to provide the Reader with general‚ background information about the software “Online Antique Bidding”. 1.1 Purpose This document is the Software Requirement Specification for the project ‘Online Antique Bidding’. This SRS helps the client to understand their needs. This SRS describes the operations and functions of the Antique Bidding system. In Antique Bidding System it executes and manages bidding functions
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SLIDE 1: What is automation Testing? In software testing‚ test automation is the use of special software (separate from the software being tested) to control the execution of tests‚ the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes‚ the setting up of test preconditions‚ and other test control and test reporting functions. Commonly‚ test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process. Goal of Automation is to reduce number of test cases
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