Exam 7: Ethical Decisions in Software Development

Software suppliers attempt to limit their liability by specifying that although software is warranted to run on a given machine configuration, no assurance is given as to what that software will do.

A successful defense against a product liability case is typically expensive in terms of legal fees.

Software defects are commonly lethal and many personal injuries are related to software failures.

Under the doctrine of supervening event, the original seller is not liable if the software was materially altered after it left the seller's possession and the alteration caused the injury.

Software product liability claims are typically based on strict liability, negligence, breach of warranty, or misrepresentation.

Which of the following is an approach to minimizing the impact of software errors by independently implementing the same set of user requirements N times, where N could be 2, 3, 4, or more?

An airline's online ticket-reservation system and an electronic funds transfer system that moves money among banks, are examples of which of the following?

From 2007 to June 2016, the percentage of organizations determined to be at a high-maturity level is 50.

User acceptance testing is performed by trained end users to ensure that the system operates as they expect.

Which of the following terms is defined as the potential of gaining or losing something of value?

A failure mode describes how a product or process could fail to perform the desired functions described by the customer.

After an organization decides to adopt which of the following, it must conduct an assessment of its software development practices to determine where they fit in the capability model?

Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value.

Which of the following is true of strategies for engineering quality software?

A primary cause of poor software quality is that developers do not know how to design quality into software from the very start, or do not take the time to do so.

Process-control computers enable the process to be monitored for variations from operating standards and to eliminate product defects before they affect which of the following?

Software quality is the degree to which a software product meets the needs of its users.

The safety engineer uses a logging and monitoring system to track which of the following?

Which of the following is true of the International Organization for Standardization?

When sued for which of the following, a software supplier is not held responsible for every product defect that causes customer or third-party loss?