April
1999 QUESTION 5 Total Marks: 20 Marks |
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| (a) | Define what is meant by software reliability.
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| (b) | McCall proposes a categorisation
that focuses on three important aspects of a software product, namely product operations,
product revision, and product transition. Describe each of these three aspects. In
addition, identify an example of a factor in each aspect.
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| (c) | The implementation of Software
Quality Assurance (SQA) is not something that is taken lightly in today's organisations.
Write a short report discussing the following aspect in a possible implementation of SQA.
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| (i) Whether today's organisations (management) are reluctant to implement SQA in the first place, and any possible reasons behind their reluctance; | ||
| (ii) The benefits that implementation of SQA would bring about; | ||
| (iii) The constraints that SQA would
bring to the organisation. For each aspect, you should describe in some detail at least two distinct points of information. |