...1. Summarize the benefits of using automated software tools to manage staff access to Internet content and e-mail. (10 marks) In today’s information age, using Internet at the workplace is essential for business. Having said this, statistics show that a majority of employees use the organisational resources for doing personal work such as social networking, email, online shopping, etc. Also a number of employees engage in activities that might cause problems for the organisation financially and legally. As a result more and more organisations have opted for automated software tools to manage staff access to Internet and e-mail. The advantages of such software tools are many, some of which have been outlined below. The use of automated software enables the management to keep a watchful eye on the employee activities, which would affect the productivity at work if the staffs indulge in personal activities online. It is important to emphasise that the manager or team leader cannot always observe his/her staffs and these software enables to record the activities of the employees at any time. Hence the management will be able to maximise productivity by managing employees’ web browsing habits. Unmanaged Internet access allows employees to download or share illegal or copyrighted content from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Also employees can take part in other activities such as downloading and viewing pornography, which might be illegal in some countries. All this means that...
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...Benefits Of Using AuTomAted sOftware Tools To Manag Staff At Work Place 1. Summarize the benefits of using automated software tools to manage staff access to Internet content and e-mail. (10 marks) In today’s information age, using Internet at the workplace is essential for business. Having said this, statistics show that a majority of employees use the organisational resources for doing personal work such as social networking, email, online shopping, etc. Also a number of employees engage in activities that might cause problems for the organisation financially and legally. As a result more and more organisations have opted for automated software tools to manage staff access to Internet and e-mail. The advantages of such software tools are many, some of which have been outlined below. The use of automated software enables the management to keep a watchful eye on the employee activities, which would affect the productivity at work if the staffs indulge in personal activities online. It is important to emphasise that the manager or team leader cannot always observe his/her staffs and these software enables to record the activities of the employees at any time. Hence the management will be able to maximise productivity by managing employees’ web browsing habits. Unmanaged Internet access allows employees to download or share illegal or copyrighted content from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Also employees can take part in other activities such as downloading and viewing...
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...Factual Summary: In this scenario, Coleman works for Software Inc. in which some of his duties included traveling to prospective clients and meeting with representatives of his sales division. During one of his sales trips he went to the mall to buy a ring for his wife that he couldn’t afford and proceeded to steal it from the jewelry store. After stealing the ring he met with John at Jimmy’s Poor-Man’s Bar which was not a client of Coleman’s. Coleman decided to show John a cool trick that at the end it killed Jimmy and the bar sustained a lot of damage. Because of what occurred at the Bar Software Inc. terminated Coleman’s employment. Coleman decided after a week of his job being terminated that he would make amends with John. He took John out to dinner and got into an argument and punched John in the eye. Legal Issue(s) Presented: The issues that were presented in this scenario were: (1) Because of what occurred at the Bar, Jimmy’s mother, John, and the 5 owners of Jimmy’s Poor-Man’s Bar sued Software Inc. for the damaged caused by Coleman. (2) Coleman sued Software Inc. for wrongful termination (3) The jewelry store sued Software Inc. for the value of the ring that was stolen by Coleman. There were several legal issues to discuss based on the different types of suits that they were bringing against Software Inc. One legal issue was when an employer is liable for the actions of an employee. Another legal issue is when an employer is able to terminate an employee...
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...A software engineer is a professional who is skilled in various fields when it comes to software development like analyzing software requirements, handling and modification of software design to make it better in quality, price and running speed. Basically, a software engineer analyzes how a piece of software can be improved and decides how that can be improved. In this process he may or may not write a lot of computer code. Either way he must be familiar with different code languages so that he has an ability to review different kinds of software. A software engineer often work as a part of team to deal with design, planning and testing of software so that the end result would be in developing required functioning software. When working with a client, a software engineer will typically evaluate the client's needs, then design, develop and test computer software in order to meet those needs. During this process they create the detailed sets of instructions, called algorithms that tell the computer what to do. Software engineers are often more concerned with developing algorithms and analyzing and solving programming problems than with actually writing code. A software engineer need not just be a developer. Many software engineers work for Multi-nationals. They are required in the fields of applied mathematics, science, research and development (government organizations), teaching professionals in the field of study. Now-a-days various software engineers decide to work as...
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...Chapter 16 – Software Quality Assurance Overview This chapter provides an introduction to software quality assurance. Software quality assurance (SQA) is the concern of every software engineer to reduce costs and improve product time-to-market. A Software Quality Assurance Plan is not merely another name for a test plan, though test plans are included in an SQA plan. SQA activities are performed on every software project. Use of metrics is an important part of developing a strategy to improve the quality of both software processes and work products. Software Quality Assurance • Umbrella activity applied throughout the software process • Planned and systematic pattern of actions required to ensure high quality in software • Responsibility of many stakeholders (software engineers, project managers, customers, salespeople, SQA group) SQA Questions • Does the software adequately meet its quality factors? • Has software development been conducted according to pre-established standards? • Have technical disciplines performed their SQA roles properly? Quality Assurance Elements • Standards – ensure that standards are adopted and follwed • Reviews and audits – audits are reviews performed by SQA personnel to ensure hat quality guidelines are followed for all software engineering work • Testing – ensure that testing id properly planned and conducted • Error/defect collection and analysis – collects and analyses error and defect data to better...
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...Systems Development: Impact of Various Software Development Methodologies By NAVEEN KARKONDA Id#110-00-4907 Abstract: Software Development Methodologies have always been the main focus in the software development life cycle of any project. Each evolutionary shift introduced new ways of thinking and viewing problems as well as introducing strengths and weaknesses in software development. However, identifying one stop solution in terms of a software development methodology for enterprise wide application development whose various sub-components or sub-stages can be best used to describe a software development scenario is still an evolving domain. This, coupled with the reality that computer science and its allied areas like information systems and information technology domains are moving forward rapidly with regards to available technologies, making it extremely difficult task for practitioners to maintain pace with the available information technologies and their application in various domains. It is to address these scenarios and probabilities that this research paper examines various software development methodologies or process models and their impact on the overall software development life cycle. 1. Introduction: Software Development Methodologies have always been the main focus during the software development life cycle of any project. Over the past 40 years, there have been significant paradigm shifts in software development, such as structured programming...
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...the statement mean: “Hardware is useless without software”? · What are differences between systems software and applications software? Give an example. · What are some of the legal issues involved in acquiring and using software in most business organizations? In my opinion, I think this statement means that hardware is useless without software to run on it because software gives instructions that tell computer hardware what to do. Hardware consist of physical equipments that are used for processing information in various ways, and software consists of the instructions or programs that determine tasks be performed by the hardware and the way these tasks are performed.The differences between systems software and applications software are systems software is a set of programs to control all components of computer and to manage overall operations of computer system. System software is used as a base to install and run all application and the systems software makes the computer work for example operating systems, such as Windows XP and Norton Antivirus. Applications software is the software that you install onto the operating system, for example processing programs, spread sheets, web browser and games. Some of the legal issues involved in acquiring and using software in most business and organizations include software licensing. That is, copying software is illegal and individuals must stop people from copying software and distributing them, others are are infringement...
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...Software Quality Assurance Software quality assurance Software quality assurance, often referred to in the industry as "software testing" or "QA testing" consists of thoroughly testing every aspect of a software project to ensure that: 1. It functions as intended and does not contain errors 2. It complies with the previously established development guidelines As the interactive software industry grows, software quality assurance has become more and more complicated. Many offshoots have arisen and considerably complicated the software testing jargon: security testing, unit testing, usability testing, load testing, scripted testing, compatibility testing, etc. In the end, what software quality assurance is all about is making sure that your software product works seamlessly for all your users. While we may expand into other areas in the future, we at the Crowdsourced Testing company specialize in one particular type of testing known as functional testing. The sad reality of software quality assurance The unfortunate reality of the software development industry is that testing is often neglected because development companies are under a tremendous amount of pressure to deliver their projects faster and faster. Furthermore, software programming is a complex endeavor and it is very difficult to know ahead of time exactly how much time will be needed to develop a particular project. What usually ends up happening is that programmers work until the very last minute available...
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...Open Source Software Intro While knowledge is the public good, there is discussion whether or not all knowledge should free for public. Today society chose suffer the loss of knowledge for certain years. They use intellectual property law to encourage individuals to invest in research and development and creating knowledge they can profit. We want to analyze an alternative way in distributing knowledge specifically open source software and how useful it is to both creators and society. Definition and characteristics Open source licenses promise to everyone what many in the community refer to as software freedom. The terminology of Freedom is emotionally satisfying, but it has proven to be very confusing. Not that software freedom isn’t definable. The Free Software Foundation lists four essential kinds of software freedom: 1. The freedom to run the software for any purpose 2. The freedom to study how the software works and to adapt it to your needs 3. The freedom to redistribute copies of the software 4. The freedom to improve the software and distribute your improvements to the public Confusion about the term Freedom was the very reason the term open source was created. The newer term refers to an important concept well understood by anyone who has ever written computer software: Programmers write source code to direct computers to perform specific tasks, while the computer itself takes care of the routine task of translating the source code into an...
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...CHAPTER 2 Software Development: Theory vs. Practice Ideally, software is developed as described in Chapter 1 * Linear * Starting from scratch Requirements -> Analysis -> Design -> Implementation -> Development In the real world, software development is totally different * We make mistakes * The client’s requirements change while the software product is being developed * Moving target problem Iteration and Incrementation In real life, we cannot speak about “the design ” * Instead, the operations of the design phase are spread out over the life cycle * We keep returning to earlier workflows The basic software development process is iterative * Each successive version is closer to its target than its predecessor Miller’s Law At any one time, we can concentrate on only approximately seven chunks (units of information) To handle larger amounts of information, use stepwise refinement * Concentrate on the seven aspects that are currently the most important * Postpone aspects that are currently less critical * Every aspect is eventually handled, but in order of current importance This is an incremental process Incrementation The number of increments will vary — it does not have to be four Sequential phases do not exist in the real world Instead, the five core workflows (activities) are performed over the entire life cycle * Requirements workflow * Analysis...
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...shop each and everything is online now so by considering such a huge scope in computer technology field it will a huge opportunity for the organization like Imperial Web Technology to start is business and provide important contribution in the field of development of the web related products. In addition to this organization start up focus is on the niche market of the New Zealand which provides handy opportunity for the Organization. Moreover, the huge numbers of online projects are also the one of the big factors which provides the great opportunity for the Imperial web technologies and with the quality of the work provided by the Imperial web technologies this opportunity can be utilized. The Imperial web technologies has biggest advantage is that along with targeting the huge marketers, organizations and client for the web development it also focuses on the software and web development requirement of the niche market of the New Zealand. Although, there are so many organizations in the New Zealand which provides the services of the web development projects which is a kind of threat for the Imperial web technology but this threat is not so hug because all the web development organization targets the huge web development client and no body focuses much for the need of the web development of...
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...installation or upgrade of new software For this task I will be explaining the advantages and the potential disadvantages of installing or upgrading a new software. Advantages * One of the advantages of installing or upgrading the new software will be that is will have a faster performance on the computer. So basically the computer will work faster and will respond faster to you so for example say that you are going to open an application or surf the web then when click on it then the computer will respond accordingly and will act fast and do the commands given very fast. * Secondly the advantage of upgrading the software can by chance fix and remove any bugs and then this will help your computer run more smoothly and you will less likely experience any faults or crashing on your computer and also by installing any new patches that are there for the software can also help remove any bugs and the patches might even come with some new and added features. * When upgrading or installing new software then you might be able to get some features that might of not have been available on your old software and might even give you functions like the ones that can increase productivity say if it’s in a business and with the new added functionality and features then this might also help the computer to perform faster and more efficient * One of the main reason why installing and upgrading new software helps is that with new and upgraded software comes improved security...
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...Software Dependencies Rushiraj Nenuji#, Lay Shah*, Harshit Shihora# # Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Nirma University 111bit020@nirmauni.ac.in 311bit032@nirmauni.ac.in 2 11bit057@nirmauni.ac.in. Abstract— Software developers many a times use different tools, so that we could find and come to know about dependencies of any particular module/system on the repository before we make changes to it. This is done in order to avoid adverse effects because of changes and hence to avoid failures related to it. Keywords— Software Dependencies, Systems, Dependency errors, Software failures. Introduction AS WE WORK WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE, THIS APPROACH CREATES PROBLEMS. WHEN WE WORK WITH MODULES AND THERE IS DEPENDENCY BETWEEN THEM WE FACE PROBLEMS LIKE COMMUNICATION PROBLEM, WORK COORDINATION, ETC. RESEARCH ARGUES THAT DISTRIBUTED TEAMS DO BETTER WHEN THEIR WORK IS ALMOST INDEPENDENT FROM EACH OTHER. IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, MODULARIZATION IS THE TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE. THE MODULAR DESIGN ARGUMENT SUGGESTS THAT BY REDUCING THE TECHNICAL DEPENDENCIES, THE WORK DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN TEAMS DEVELOPING INTERDEPENDENT MODULES ARE ALSO REDUCED. THIS DISSERTATION ARGUES THAT MODULARIZATION IS NOT A SUFFICIENT REPRESENTATION OF WORK DEPENDENCIES IN THE CONTEXT OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND IT PROPOSES A METHOD FOR MEASURING SOCIO-TECHNICAL CONGRUENCE, DEFINED AS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STRUCTURE OF WORK DEPENDENCIES AND THE COORDINATION...
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...Software Engineering Workshop ISO 29110 ISO 29110 W k h Workshop Basic profile guide processes 1 Project Management process diagram Project Management (PM) Work Products • • • • • • • Project Plan P j t Pl Meeting Record Change Request Acceptance Record Progress Status Record Correction Register Verification Results 2 Project Plan • Product Description - Purpose - General Customer requirements • Scope description of what is included and what is not • Objectives of the project • Deliverables p - list of products to be delivered to Customer • Tasks, including verification, validation and reviews with Customer and Work Team, to assure the quality of work products. Tasks may be represented as a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). • Relationship and Dependence of the Tasks Project Plan (Con’t) • Estimated Duration of tasks • Resources (humans materials standards equipment and (humans, materials, standards, tools) including the required training, and the schedule when the resources are needed. • Composition of Work Team • Schedule of the Project Tasks, the expected start and completion date, for each task. • E ti t d Effort and Cost Estimated Eff t d C t • Identification of Project Risks 3 Project Plan (Con’t) • Version Control Strategy - Product repository tools or mechanism identified - Location and access mechanisms for the repository specified - Version identification and control defined - Backup and recovery mechanisms defined - Storage, handling...
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...Copyright is the right that all creators possess in order to prevent others from copying their mental property and creative works without the creators’ permission. Copyright protects the works of various creators, these consist of artists, musicians, filmmakers and even people who create and produce code. So long as these creative works have been recorded, filmed, written down they are protected by copyright as soon as they have been created. The copyright notice/symbol © is recommended when creative works are created and or become available to the public or other industries however this isn’t necessary, but it does create another small barrier for people who may steal or copy the works, along with the symbol the copyright owner’s name will be included for informational insurance....
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