SDD
- Developers have rights in regard to how other people may use and duplicate their products.
- Developers have the responsibility to be accountable to their customers, to provide solutions
Intellectual property
- Intellectual property (IP) is :: property resulting from mental labour.
- Copyright laws protect the IP rights of authors over their IP.
Quality:
- Quality assurance (QA) :: sets of standards developed to adhere to in the production of outputs
- Factors that are measured to determine software quality:
- Correctness – does it do what it is supposed to do?
- Reliability – does it work all the time?
- Efficiency – does it do it the best way possible?
- Integrity – is it secure?
- Usability – is it designed for end use?
- Maintainability – can it be understood and modified?
- Flexibility – can it be modified?
- Testability – can it be tested?
- Portability – will it work on varying platforms?
- Re-usability – can parts be reused?
- Interoperability – will it work with other software?