“The difficulty of ensuring all the quality aspects of a software is proportional with the complexity of the system.” I agree with the above statement. Not only quality but costs involved are also related to the software complexity. If a code is… Continue Reading
The entire project team should ensure the software quality and not only the developers. In my opinion, the quality of the software is directly proportional to the quality of the collaboration amongst the entire team. High-quality teamwork is considered a crucial… Continue Reading
We so often in our day to day life use the term “dependable computer system”. Dependability has four properties that come together to make a system reliable. The four dependability properties are: Availability Reliability Safety Security The “Availability” of a… Continue Reading
Project management is a crucial part of any software development project. Managing intangible entities like software is a difficult task. Other projects where the product is visible for instance, a civil engineering project, the structure, and the defective parts can be… Continue Reading
Socio-technical systems (STS) are complex systems comprising of social and technical aspect and both of these hold significance. Risk management in these systems is a difficult task. As with large and critical system upfront documentation and analysis is a must… Continue Reading
Does the bytecode/JVM execution model impacts the decision of not having pointers like C/C++ in Java? Well, One of the main features of JVM is Garbage collection so to answer this question, yes it does. As Java does not support pointers… Continue Reading
You require to use them (Mansfield, 2013): 1. At times, an object is passed as a pointer because you want the function to access the object itself and not its copy. 2. If you need to implement polymorphism. But this… Continue Reading
I suppose it is an error on programmer’s end when they forget to initialize a pointer correctly. If they don’t want to initialize to some other variable, at least initializing it to NULL would help. Basically when declaring a pointer and… Continue Reading
Engels (2016) has done a great comparison based on performance for Java and C++. In his study, he states “To demonstrate that, I’ve developed a set of simple benchmarks that test some of the critical aspects of the software used in a trading… Continue Reading
“who to transfer the “blame” to than a price issue.” ?????? It caught my attention. That is a valid point most people make. We, humans, need someone to blame and like Chris said that if prompt IT support is not available then it… Continue Reading