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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Software for a “registered users self service” backend
Do you know any server-side software package for "registered users self service" / "service portal" backends?
Background: software shops (software developers) need a web interface where customers can ...
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Is it possible to reach absolute zero bug state for large scale software? [closed]
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 ...
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Copyright/General Law for Publishing Online Software
I'm planning on releasing a program I made, but I'm not sure exactly how to ensure people don't just steal it. The price point is $1, but I'm not selling it through an "app store" or anything so I ...
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Scanning/TWAIN support on Mac [closed]
Some of our clients are going to start using Macs and move away from Windows laptops. Currently they use our web application allows them to perform document scanning using an attached scanner. The ...
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Development methodologies when hundred of developers are working on one single solution?
We are an organisation consisting of around 200 developers that are working continuously on one single product (using the revision control Git) which is planned to be released at a certain date.
Due ...
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How many different configurations are used for software tests?
This article shows that for Android apps, software developers use between 30 and 50 different devices for compatibility tests.
I tried to find information about tests of applications on "classic" ...
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How is the Trial Period for Softwares generally implemented?
I was always under the assumption that trial softwares write a registry value of the installation date and then the software makes a comparison of the current date of the system with the remaining ...
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Functional Decomposition of a Scenario [closed]
I really don't know how to put up this question but in a case whereby ...
System Requirements are stated thus;
There are four major requirements to this system. First, it has to facilitate train ...
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Which one of the stages in the traditional software life cycle do you consider to be the most important, and why? [closed]
I think that is the requirement definition stage because it decides the correctness of software such as design, implement, testing and delivering to customer. Is it correct?
I appreciate any help
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Is there an established software taxonomy that's based on the type of software?
I'm researching engineering approaches to software development based on the type of software, for example:
Custom one-off software (e.g. space shuttle software)
Whitebox application requiring ...
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Intel Core i3 vs Intel Core i5 - which one suits for software development? [closed]
I'm a java programmer focused on J2EE. I'm planning to buy a new laptop for software development. I had found a laptop what I want. It come with two versions of CPU: one with Intel Core i3-3110M and ...
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Open Source Channel Manager (Channel Distribution Software)
we're operating in the hotel business and like to develop some kind of Channel Manager or Channel Distribution Software for our customers.
The goal of the software is to have a central place managing ...
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Selling/Distributing serials for software with protection? [closed]
I'm trying to figure out how to sell a software license for a new program I've written on a wordpress site using pre-generated keys - and also to setup remote protection for the keys by checking for ...
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Problem Understanding the IEEE definition of Software Engineering
Background
Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the design, development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these ...
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Is “frontend” generic term or it is used only in web design?
When I read about frontends, it always mentiones webpages. Can it be used in different contexts, e.g. desktop applications?
