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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Harvard Business Case: "Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape‚ Yahoo!‚ NetDyanamics‚ and Microsoft". 2. What are the similarities and differences between the four approaches to product development? What drives these differences? Type Netscape Yahoo Net Dynamic Microsoft Development Methodology RAD Phased Agile RAD Prototype Agile RAD Throwaway Prototype Waterfall RUP SDLC Approach (BA/Interactive design) Interactive design -Goal oriented
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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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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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What Is Computer Software? When you think of a computer imagine a machine made of two parts. The first part is the computer hardware‚ the physical parts of the computer that you can actually touch. Some examples of hardware are disks‚ monitors‚ boards‚ chips‚ etc. Hardware does all of the physical work of the computer‚ from memory storage to display. The second part‚ what we call “computer software”‚ acts as the brain of the computer‚ telling the hardware what to do and when and how to do it
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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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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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Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Version 5.2) as recommended by the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices and jointly approved by the ACM and the IEEE-CS as the standard for teaching and practicing software engineering. Short Version Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (Short Version) PREAMBLE The short version of the code summarizes aspirations at a high level of the abstraction; the
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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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Since the labor is so much cheaper in India than it is in the United States‚ more and more software industries move their companies over seas. It is also very easy to transfer software from one continent onto another due to today ’s technology. India has a comparative advantage over software because they specialized in this field‚ they do not need many resources to make it and they get the people to do it. Because of this they can export their product to other countries and buy some other product
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