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- 61: Testing Tools
- ... part of developers that produce applications with functions that facilitate fraud or other criminal activity (an especial risk to the financial industry). This problem has been addressed by European Community Legislation, increasing the onus on software developers to show that they took all reasonable steps to ensure an application was free of defects and suitable for the purpose for which it was developed. Failure to do so could leave the developer liable to be sued by anyone have has incurred a loss in any business as a result of software collapse. The main types of tool that have resulted as a partial result of this are described below. Testing Tool Categories There are a large number of testing tools that are available, but they all work in very different ways. The main types of testing categories are described below. Static measurement Tools that analyse source code without executing test cases, but in deriving test cases for the software to be tested. There are three different types used in industry that are described below: Code based testing tools accept source code as input and perform a number of analyses that result in the ...
- 62: Requirements Needed in Certain Computer Related Fields
- Requirements Needed in Certain Computer Related Fields Software Programmer A software programmer programs and writes software and different applications for computers. For example, different software programmers wrote the software word processor MS Works 2.0, and different programmers write games. Some requirements are: - 3 to 5 years experience in RPGII ...
- 63: Accounting Information Systems in A Changing Environment
- ... 1. Introduction 3 2. The changing business environment 3 3. Computerised accounting information systems 4 3.1 Input devices 4 3.2 Processing and storage devices 4 3.3 Output devices 5 3.4 Accounting software 5 3.4.1 Accounting packages 5 3.4.2 Spreadsheets and other software 6 4. The components of an accounting information system 6 4.1 Source documents 6 4.2 Journals 6 4.3 Ledgers 7 4.4 Files 7 4.5 Reports 7 4.6 Controls 7 ... up to date with the current standard in the market. In the following section we will discuss the basics of a computerised system. 3. Computerised Accounting Systems A basic computer system consists of hardware and software. Hardware comprises input, processing & storage and output devices. Software consists of specialised programs that utilise the hardware. These components are all connected and work as one in the processing cycle. 3.1 INPUT DEVICES ...
- 64: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... 3. An alternative to government censorship is the technological fix, which would prevent misuse of the Net and would have the same effects as government censorship. 1. One example of technological fix is the "SurfWatch" software. 2. Also, commercial Internet service providers, such as "America Online", allow parents to control what Internet relay chat (IRC) sessions are available to their children. 3. Another technological fix is for parents and guardians to ... of the material when posting is very important. 5. Nowadays, most internet users classify their postings with standard categories, and leave signatures at the end of postings. 6. The combination of the installation of censoring software and the classification of materials is a much better solution than government censorship. Conclusion The Internet is a wonderful place of entertainment and education but like all places used by millions of people, it has ... and still function. At about the same time the Internet was coming into being, Ethernet local area networks ("LANs") were developed. Most of these workstations came with Berkeley UNIX, which included IP (Internet Protocol) networking software. This created a new demand: rather than connecting to a single large timesharing computer per site, organizations wanted to connect the ARPAnet to their entire local network. The demand keeps growing today. Now that ...
- 65: The National Institute of Standards and Technology
- ... data processing techniques, for computer equipment, and for computer languages. After the name change in 1989, the agency announced that it would soon establish regional manufacturing technology centers to speed the spread of new technology. Software (computer), computer programs; instructions that cause the hardware-the machines-to do work. Software as a whole can be divided into a number of categories based on the types of work done by programs. The two primary software categories are operating systems (system software), which control the workings of the computer, and application software, which addresses the multitude of tasks for which people use computers. System software thus handles such essential, but ...
- 66: Bill Gates
- ... cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, holds 30.7 percent of its stock making him one of the richest people in the United States. He was the marketing and sales strategist behind many of Microsoft's software deals. Their software became the industry standard in the early 1980s and has just increased in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Bill Gates' first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his "first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1). It was at Lakeside that Gates met Paul Allen, who later became cofounder with Gates of Microsoft. There ...
- 67: The Introduction of Computers in Education
- ... s, by allowing them to obtain vital information for their studies. In addition, computers has also provided four crucial ways in which students can increase their learning abilities with the aide of new and improved software that are available in schools, libraries and even in their homes. First of all, students learn how to procure information through the use of computers. It has made the way students access information easier and with greater degree of accuracy. The software that is now available allows a student to increase the productivity of his/her workload, by generating raw materials for their research assignments or their presentations. Even grade school children have the same advantages when ... part of the home appliance and entertainment center. They are now in about every household across America. Students are now doing the majority of their research in the comforts of home with less distraction. The software for PCs is extensive and the students can obtain all the information he/she needs for an assignment. The time that was spent running to the library has been cut by about ninety percent. ...
- 68: Computer Software Ownership
- COMPUTER SOFTWARE OWNERSHIP A computer program is a sequence of commands, which tells the computer how to perform a task or a sequence of tasks. Large computer programs are called software, they perform heavier tasks. Some of those software programs are being published on the net, and this is how they are downloaded for free everyday. Microsoft is well known for this way of selling products like Internet explorer, Net Meeting, Real Audio ...
- 69: Bill Gates
- ... cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, holds 30.7 percent of its stock making him one of the richest people in the United States. He was the marketing and sales strategist behind many of Microsoft's software deals. Their software became the industry standard in the early 1980s and has just increased in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Bill Gates' first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his "first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1). It was at Lakeside that Gates met Paul Allen, who later became cofounder with Gates of Microsoft. There ...
- 70: Bill Gates
- ... cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, holds 30.7 percent of its stock making him one of the richest people in the United States. He was the marketing and sales strategist behind many of Microsoft's software deals. Their software became the industry standard in the early 1980s and has just increased in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Bill Gates' first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his "first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1). It was at Lakeside that Gates met Paul Allen, who later became cofounder with Gates of Microsoft. There ...
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