Business Software and Legacy Migration

Software Engineer ... The term programmer has often been used as a pejorative term to refer to those without the tools, skills, education, or ethics to write good quality software... In response, many practitioners called themselves software engineers to escape the stigma attached to the word programmer... In many companies, the titles programmer and software developer were changed to software engineer, for many categories of programmers...

White-box Testing ... Specific knowledge of the application's code/internal structure and programming knowledge in general is not required. The tester is only aware of what the software is supposed to do, but not how i.e...

Destructive Testing ... Version 2 of the GNU General Public License does not allow software to be distributed if that software requires a patent licence that does not "permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you"... For this study, Ravicher performed patent searches to estimate the patent-risk of the Linux kernel: In conclusion, he found that no court-validated software patent is infringed by the Linux kernel... However, Ravicher also found 283 issued but not yet court-validated software patents that, if upheld as valid by the courts, could potentially be used to support patent claims against Linux...

Software Industry ... The software industry expanded in the early 1960s, almost immediately after computers were first sold in mass-produced quantities... The computer-makers started bundling operating systems software and programming environments with their machines... New software was built for micro-computers, and others, including IBM, followed DECs example quickly, resulting in the IBM AS400 amongst others...

Stop Online Piracy Act ... While white-box testing can be applied at the unit, integration and system levels of the software testing process, it is usually done at the unit level...

Software Quality ... Historically, the structure, classification and terminology of attributes and metrics applicable to software quality management have been derived or extracted from the ISO 9126-3 and the subsequent ISO 25000:2005 quality model, also known as SQuaRE... Based on these models, the software structural quality characteristics have been clearly defined by the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ), an independent organization founded by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Object Management Group (OMG)... CISQ has defined 5 major desirable characteristics needed for a piece of software to provide business value: Reliability, Efficiency, Security, Maintainability and (adequate) Size...

Test Automation ... These applications are either pre-installed on phones during manufacture, downloaded by customers from various mobile software distribution platforms, or web applications delivered over HTTP which use server-side or client-side processing (e.g...

Library (computing) ... Libraries contain code and data that provide services to independent programs. This encourages the sharing and changing of code and data in a modular fashion, and eases the distribution of the code and data...

Computer Standard ... Developers prefer using standards for software development because of the efficiencies it provides for code development and wider user acceptance and use of the resulting application... For example, the protocols HTML, TCP/IP, SMTP, POP and FTP are software standards that an application designer must understand and follow if their software expects to interface with these standards...

History Of Copyright Law ... Due to the need to frequently translate old software to meet the needs of new machines, high-order languages like FORTRAN, COBOL, and ALGOL were developed... A few companies sold the service of building custom software but no software companies were selling packaged software... 1945 to 1965: The Origins The term software engineering first appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

Software Bug ... This was initially dismissed as pilot error, but an investigation by Computer Weekly uncovered sufficient evidence to convince a House of Lords inquiry that it may have been caused by a software bug in the aircraft's engine control computer...

Copyright Infringement Of Software ... Motivation Some of the motives for engaging in the illegal activity of copyright infringement are the following: Pricing – unwillingness or inability to pay the price requested by the legitimate sellers Unavailability – no legitimate sellers providing the product in the country of the end-user: not yet launched there, already withdrawn from sales, never to be sold there, geographical restrictions on online distribution and international shipping Usefulness – the legitimate product comes with various means (DRM, region lock, DVD region code, Blu-ray region code) of restricting legitimate use (backups, usage on devices of different vendors, offline usage) or comes with annoying non-skipable advertisements and anti-piracy disclaimers, which are removed in the pirated product making it more desirable for the end-user Shopping experience – no legitimate sellers providing the product with the required quality through online distribution and through a shopping system with...

Black-box Testing ... One of the main reasons for regression testing is to determine whether a change in one part of the software affects other parts of the software... Background Experience has shown that as software is fixed, emergence of new and/or reemergence of old faults is quite common... Often, a fix for a problem will be "fragile" in that it fixes the problem in the narrow case where it was first observed but not in more general cases which may arise over the lifetime of the software...

Software ... Computer software is so called to distinguish it from computer hardware, which encompasses the physical interconnections and devices required to store and execute (or run) the software... Software may also be written in an assembly language, essentially, a mnemonic representation of a machine language using a natural language alphabet... The first theory about software was proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Decision problem)...

Software Testing ... Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program/application/product: meets the requirements that guided its design and development; works as expected; and can be implemented with the same characteristics... Software testing, depending on the testing method employed, can be implemented at any time in the development process... Different software development models will focus the test effort at different points in the development process...

In Re Bilski ... Proponents of the legislation state it will protect the intellectual-property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and is necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign websites. Claiming flaws in present laws that do not cover foreign-owned and operated sites, and citing examples of "active promotion of rogue websites" by U. S...

3D Computer Graphics ... 3D computer graphics rely on many of the same algorithms as 2D computer vector graphics in the wire-frame model and 2D computer raster graphics in the final rendered display. In computer graphics software, the distinction between 2D and 3D is occasionally blurred; 2D applications may use 3D techniques to achieve effects such as lighting, and 3D may use 2D rendering techniques...

Montage Image Mosaic Software ... The Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion on appeal (as Bilski v. Kappos) that affirmed the judgment of the CAFC, but revised many aspects of the CAFC's decision...