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25 Cards in this Set
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One cause for the delay of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was the ____.
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inability to trace lines of code back to specific system requirements for the braking system
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This organization was forced to notify more than 800,000 borrowers that a software installation error had resulted in a miscalculation of their loans and that their payments would increase.
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Sallie Mae
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The objective of quality management is to ____.
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deliver high-quality systems that meet the needs of their users
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The first release of any software ____.
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rarely meets all its users’ expectations
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A primary cause of poor software quality is that ____.
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many developers do not know how to design quality into software from the very start
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The degree to which a software product meets the needs of its users is called software ____
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quality
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It is estimated that the Microsoft Vista operating system ____
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took over five years to develop
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Additional features in a new release of software ____.
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make it more useful and easier to sell
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Software used to control many industrial processes in an effort to reduce costs, eliminate human error, improve quality, and shorten the time it takes to manufacture products is called a(n) ____.
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process control system
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There is no federal product liability law; instead, product liability is mainly covered by common law and ____ which deals with the sale of goods
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The Code of Federal Regulations
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When sued for negligence, a software developer is not held responsible for every product defect that could have been detected that causes customer or third-party loss. Instead, responsibility is limited to ____.
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harmful defects that could have been detected and corrected through “reasonable” software development practices
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Under the doctrine of supervening event, ____.
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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
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A(n) ____ requires several standards must be met including; the goods must be fit for the ordinary purpose for which they are used, the quality of the goods must pass without objection in the trade, and the goods must meet a fair average or middle range of quality.
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implied warranty of merchantability
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The plaintiff must have a ____ that the supplier did not fulfill in order to win a breach-of-warranty claim
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valid contract
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____ occurs when a seller or lessor either misrepresents the quality of a product or conceals a defect in it
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Intentional misrepresentation
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____ is a standard, proven work process that enables project team members to make controlled and orderly progress in developing high-quality software
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Software development methodology
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One approach to quality assurance is to test the code of a completed unit of software by actually entering test data and comparing the results to the expected results. This is called ____.
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dynamic testing
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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 ____.
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integration testing
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____ defines five levels of software development maturity and identifies the issues that are most critical to software quality and process improvement.
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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
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After an organization decides to adopt CMMI-DEV, it must ____.
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conduct an assessment of its software development practices
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Even with safety precautions in place, the software associated with safety-critical systems ____
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is vulnerable to errors that can lead to injury or death
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When developing safety-critical software ____.
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a project safety engineer maintains a hazard log
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Risk involves the measurement or assessment of two parameters, the probability of an undesirable event occurring and ____.
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the magnitude of the event’s consequences
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To obtain the ____ certificate, an organization must submit to an examination by an external auditor and have written procedures for all processes, follow those procedures, and prove to an auditor that it has fulfilled these requirements.
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ISO 9000
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____ describes how a product or process could fail to perform the desired function described by the customer.
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FMEA actually is should be failure mode
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