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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October 2012 Evaluating a Computer System Judging the effectiveness of a computer system has taken on a new dimension in the past few years‚ if for no other reason than the wide range of computer systems from which the user can select. It is‚ therefore‚ important that we investigate the criteria that should be considered in making this important decision. Probably the obvious criterion to be considered when one purchases a computer system is speed. The value of a computer is directly related to its
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Abstract Software architecture plays an important role in the achievement of particular qualities we want to see in our software under development. On the other hand specific software demands some distinct qualities in software architecture. Now question arises how software architecture becomes the base to achieve the certain qualities and how qualities influence the architecture. Architecture provides the base for the development of the core product so by inspecting the architecture we can predict
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A hardware description language(HDL) is a language from a class of computer languages‚ specification languages‚ or modeling languages for formal description and design of electronic circuits‚ and most-commonly‚ digital logic. It can describe the circuit’s operation‚ it’s design and organization‚ to verify its operation by simulation. The hardware description language looks much like a programming language such as C++‚ it is a textual description consisting of expressions‚ statements and control
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Software Applications and Information Systems A software application and an information system is vital for any company to manage its business. An unbelieveable amount of information and procedures that is made within a company‚ both the application and system relieves a company of a huge amount of paperwork. By aquiring a software application the accounting‚ marketing‚ and human resources department can keep track of many different areas within their department. The information system helps to
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History of software engineering From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2011) History of computing Hardware • Hardware before 1960 • Hardware 1960s to present • Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries Software • Software • Unix • Open-source software Computer science
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Intellectual Property and Computer Software: the Ongoing Controversy Introduction Ever since the computer software industry began during the mid-1970’s with the personal computer revolution‚ using intellectual property rights (IPR) to protect software has been controversial. Presently‚ software can be protected using both copyright and patents. The issue of software patentability is particularly contentious. On one side there are the large‚ mainly U.S. based corporations‚ such as IBM‚ Microsoft
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Analysis Phase‚ which should involve requirements definition for all planned releases. 1.0 OBJECTIVE/GOALS Objectives Successful completion of the Requirements Analysis Phase should comprise: • Definition of approved requirements • Creation of the System Requirements Document and Requirements Traceability Matrix • Development of planned test activities • Approval to progress to the Design Phase Goals The purpose of the Requirements Analysis Phase is to transform the needs and high-level requirements
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of us think that computers are many many times faster‚ more powerful and more capable when compared to our brains simply because they can perform calculations thousands of time faster‚ workout logical computations without error and store memory at incredible speeds with flawless accuracy. But is the the computer really superior to the human brain in terms of ability ‚ processing power and adaptability ? We now give you the real comparison. Processing Power and Speed The human brain - We can only
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analyze the importance of interface design and how much interface presents in our everyday life. The most of our daily tasks is accomplished with a use of at least one type of interface. The basic purpose of an interface is to help use to communicate with a machine. The three most common kinds of an interface are: touch sensitive interface‚ menu interface and graphical user interface. Using smart phones‚ laptops‚ going to the ATM machine is considered as using interface. Even writing this case study
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