Bullying, whether cyber or real, whether adult, or child is unacceptable and a violation of human rights covered by the “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”(UN, 1948) and the “Convention on the Rights of the Child” (UN, 1990). In the eyes of the law, where prosecution takes place it is usually in terms of harassment
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Literacy and linguistics are skills and like any skills that must be learned and practiced. Increased incidents of “bad practice” are at the detriment of “good practice”. It is important to distinguish informal and formal language use. The greater levels of acceptance of informality with society, is cause “spillage” of Internet idioms into spoken language.
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‘Design by Contract’ both improves the design and reliability of software, but it does so at a cost. It has been demonstrated that design by contract could have averted some the software industries biggest disasters. However it is important to realize that it is only a technique and not a “silver bullet”, whilst used appropriately
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Test Driven Design, offers significant advantages over Top Down Design, but is a practice that requires a high level of skill. In essence it prevents the need to write the program twice, and provides testing as an integrated part of the product rather that an afterthought The question has always been when should design stop
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Object Orientation adds a level of complexity to testing, whilst frameworks and techniques have to adapt, the encapsulated nature of OO helps to define a finite scope. With minor adaption most methodologies can be adapted to test this technology. Object Orientation also provides opportunities to enhance out testing repertoire. The concept of Object Orientation binds
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Software security testing is perhaps the hardest facet of Software Quality Assurance to realise and security faults are often not discovered until such time and their abuse is discovered. There can be no hard and fast rule on the exit criteria for any given project. Each project must be risk assessed and the effort put
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The waterfall method, documented by Royce (Royce, 1970), attempted to ensure quality through constraints, conversely Boehm’s Spiral model (Boehm, 1988) attempts to address the inflexibility of the waterfall approach offering opportunities for improvement throughout the entire process. It is Boehm’s spiral that from the basis of all today’s modern agile mythologies. We should note that
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Project management of distributed projects poses some unique challenges, not the lease of these is communication. It is essential the strong project managements is in place if these projects are to be successful. Outsources is the epitome of this practice, and whilst risk is increased, positive results can be achieved if suitable precautions are made.
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The development of software is considered a creative process, and as such entices creative people to the endeavour. Conversely testing is perceived as the inverse, and perhaps even as attempt the undermine the value of that creativity; “Theory states that when an individual has access to the data necessary to perform the creative task at
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The decision to stop testing is not one that can be generalized for all projects. It must take into account the nature of the project concerned, the risk management strategy, and the budget available as well and any legal or standards based requirements. Numerous studies have been conducted that show the statistical presence of significant
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