Exam 7: Software Development

Any defect in software can lead to decreased product quality, increased waste and costs, or even unsafe operating conditions for employees.

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

As a result of the lack of consistent quality in software, many organizations avoid buying the release of a major software product.

After an organization determines all pertinent to a system, it must decide its acceptable level.

involves viewing the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings are unknown.

can be oral, written, or inferred from the seller's conduct.

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.

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

Discuss intentional misrepresentation.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that defines the essential elements of effective processes.

defines five levels of software development maturity and identifies the issues that are most critical to software quality and process improvement.

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

When forced to choose between adding more user features and doing more testing, most software companies decide in favor of more testing.

Which of the following is true of software testing?

Define reliability.