Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.
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Is it possible to reach absolute zero bug state for large scale software?
I am talking about 20-30+ millions lines of code, software at the scale and complexity of Autodesk Maya for example.
If you freeze the development as long as it needs to be, can you actually fix all ...
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Exploratory Development vs Incremental Development
In Software Engineering Methodologies... The Evolutionary Development contains Exploratory & Prototyping...
Is Exploratory Development same as Incremental Development... What do you mean by ...
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Extreme Programming practices make an application more error prone? [closed]
I am conducting academic research on the topic of Extreme Programming and whether its practices lead to creating space for more errors and bugs in applications.
From the experiences I gathered from ...
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Are there any sites where different common software tools are recommended/reviewed by programmers? [closed]
I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but I give it a shot.
What I'm looking for is a site where programmers comment on or review different software tools. Like highlighting the differences ...
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Should a Biotech company invest in developing its own software? [closed]
Working in a Biotech company, there are many opportunities for automating the processing of information. There are also many software solutions e.g. LIM systems, ELN's etc. to fit those specific ...
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Is Software coding Redundant? [closed]
Is software becoming too complex to maintain over-time? Is coding redundant? Consider object-oriented design. Why not 'manufacture' discrete ASICs with hard-wired logic (CMOS) that emulate functions ...
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Does a developer really have to know build tools, classpath etc? [duplicate]
When IDEs like eclipse can handle all the maven, ant, classpath etc related tasks, does a developer really need to learn all these things ? If yes, then why ?
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Free Quality Control Online Tool [closed]
Is there a good free Software Quality Control tool? I want to be able to write test cases for my software development.
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Evaluating the complete revision of other's software
I'm having some difficulty to evaluate the revision of a software: the software was paid by customer years ago, never used, and now the customer have noticed that it doesn't work as expected.
Now ...
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Documentation from code [duplicate]
First of all I am not very sure if this is right forum to put the query to. Please feel free to move it to right forum.
I am a Sr Java Developer approximately 3 months old to a team. Recently my ...
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Develop strategy of bigger projects [closed]
I have an issue, it's about developing bigger project. I have experience of what I do, but my biggest problem is that I get stuck too often in small details, for the most user interface parts. Because ...
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How do you schedule software updates, major releases, milestones (what is this?)
What are the common terminology used to schedule software update and support. For example, I really have no clue how releases and updates differ, how often are updates released (not everyday I hope)?
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Can I continue to sell a tool/library I wrote in the past now that I got a full-time job or company will not like it?
I was selling a library/framework/tool to companies. Licensing the binaries. Now I got a full-time-job. Haven't started yet, but will start soon. And I just got a request for quote from a company in ...
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Software failure due to maintenance oversights example/case study
I'm doing some investigation into the role of maintenance in software development and the use of metrics within the development cycle.
What I am asking is for a point in the right direction or ...
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How much attention should be paid to patents when developing software?
Let's say I want to develop an image editing program similar to Photoshop. Is it likely that certain interface patterns and approaches are patented and I can get sued if I use them in my program as ...
