Exam 7: Software Development

Briefly discuss the meaning of strict liability and outline the strategies that a defendant may take to fight a charge of strict liability.

Software that is used daily by workers worldwide likely contains thousands of ____________________.

The accurate, thorough, and timely processing of business transactions is a key requirement for business information systems. A software defect in such a system can be devastating, resulting in lost customers and reduced revenue.

After an organization decides to adopt CMMI-DEV, it must ____.

____________________ is a form of testing that employs special software to look for suspicious patterns in programs that might indicate a defect.

____ occurs when a seller or lessor either misrepresents the quality of a product or conceals a defect in it.

After successful unit testing, the software units are combined into an integrated subsystem that undergoes rigorous testing to ensure that the linkages among the various subsystems work successfully. This form of testing is called ____.

Redundancy, the provision of multiple interchangeable components to perform a single function, is a key element of the standard decision support system.

In determining whether warranty disclaimers are unreasonable, the court attempts to evaluate if the contract was made between two ____________________ or between an expert and a novice.

One cause for the delay of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was the ____.

A business information system is a set of interrelated components-including hardware, software, databases, networks, procedures, and ____________________-that collects data, processes it, and disseminates the output.

Even when a contract is written expressly to protect against supplier negligence, courts may ____________________ such terms as unreasonable.

The extreme pressure that software companies feel to reduce the time to market for their products has little impact on the quality of the software.

There are two forms of dynamic testing-black-box testing and white-box testing.

There is no federal product liability law; instead, product liability is mainly covered by common law and ____ which deals with the sale of goods.

A software development methodology recommends specific ____________________ for accomplishing the various software development activities.

There are _________________________ for claims of liability which means that an injured party must file suit within a certain amount of time after the injury occurs.

The Capability Maturity Model Integration-Development process improvement approach defines six levels of software development maturity.

The impact of a software defect is catastrophic and leads to death or serious injury.

The liability of manufacturers, sellers, lessors, and others for injuries caused by defective products is commonly referred to as negligence.