Tuesday, September 26, 2017

HW13: Chapter 8

8.7) Write a scenario that could be used to help design tests for the wilderness weather station system.

- Craig works at wilderness weather station an hour from Charleston wear he uses the wilderness weather station system. Craig logs in every day using his username and password. Craig records readings throughout the day. He checks past data in the system and compares it to the data recorded today. He then sends the data recorded to the data management system. Craig logs out of the weather management system.

8.10) A common approach to system testing is to test the system until the testing budget is exhausted and then deliver the system to customers. Discuss the ethics of this approach for systems that are delivered to external customers.

- Simply exhausting the testing budget seems unethical to me. If the budget is low, testing should be done more efficiently. For example, The features of the system that get the most use should undergo more testing. If this is not enough, perhaps the budget should be rethought. Shipping an under-tested system is unethical. A system could have fatal flaws that causes difficulty for users.
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