Lecture 1. Software Engineering Introduction‚ Objectives‚ Professional and ethical responsibility Objectives 1. To introduce software engineering and to explain its importance 2. To set out the answers to key questions about software engineering .3. To introduce ethical and professional issues and to explain why they are of concern to software engineers Software engineering The economies of ALL developed nations are dependent on software. More and more systems are software controlled.
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P RACTICAL SOFTWARE TESTING Springer New York Berlin Heidelberg Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo P RACTICAL SOFTWARE TESTING A PROCESS-ORIENTED APPROACH ILENE BURNSTEIN Ilene Burnstein Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 10 West 31 Street Chicago‚ IL 60616 USA burnstei@babbage2.cs.iit.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burnstein‚ Ilene. Practical software testing : a process-oriented approach / Ilene Burnstein
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Information support for business decisions 20 March 2013 Continental Airlines Takes Off with Real-time Business Intelligence * Describe “active” data warehousing as it is applied at Continental Airlines. Does Continental apply active or real-time warehousing differently than this concept is normally described? Continental was in the beginning a disaster in doing business before Real-time IB; late flights‚ bad baggage handling and its lost‚ complaining customers because of delays‚ overbooking
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application development as an aspect of ICT there has been a huge improvement in the availability and portability of applications in our day to day business transactions. Mobile application development is the course of action by which application software is designed and developed for hand-held devices like mobile phones‚ personal digital assistants‚ etc. With regard to the Agricultural sector most
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Continental Airlines Takes Off with Real-time Business Intelligence Introduction: Continental Airlines was once successfully revolution by using Business Intelligence and save it from bankrupt. Below are some items discuss how Continental Airlines implement strategies related with Business Intelligence. 1. In what ways does real-time data warehousing fit with the Continental strategy and plans? Go Forward Plan was the earliest plan that start in Continental revolution‚ and real-time data warehousing
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LARGE SCALE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 1. What are the fundamental activities that are common to all software processes? a. Specification – defining what the system should do; b. Design and implementation – defining the organization of the system and implementing the system; c. Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants; d. Evolution – changing the system in response to changing customer needs. 2. List the 3 generic
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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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Issues—The Software Crisis 1. Introduction to Chapter The term "software crisis" has been used since the late 1960s to describe those recurring system development problems in which software development problems cause the entire system to be late‚ over budget‚ not responsive to the user and/or customer requirements‚ and difficult to use‚ maintain‚ and enhance. The late Dr. Winston Royce‚ in his paper Current Problems [1]‚ emphasized this situation when he said in 1991: The construction of new software that
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Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
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the company name] | FORWARD SOFTWARE | Settlement or Else? | | | INTRODUCTION Forward Software‚ Inc. is a software company potentially facing a copyright infringement lawsuit. The spreadsheet product Forward sells includes an optional menu navigation system identical to that of Focus Software‚ the original developer of the menu system. Forward’s spreadsheet product currently dominates the market. Focus Software is currently suing a smaller software company that has also used this
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