week 6

A6 Quality of software applications How the design and implementation of a software application affects quality, including:

• efficiency/performance, e.g. the system resources consumed by the program, CPU cycles, processor time, memory space, accessing storage media

• maintainability, e.g. ease with which a program can be modified by its present or future developer in order to carry out corrective, perfective or adaptive maintenance

• portability, e.g. range of computer hardware, operating systems and platforms on which the source code can be run/compiled/interpreted

• reliability, e.g. accuracy and the consistency of its outputs

• robustness, e.g. quality of coding and testing to ensure that extreme and erroneous data can be processed without causing the program to crash

• usability, e.g. ease with which an end user can use the program. 

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