Q. What is a major driving force for software development?

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Q. What are the costs associated with software development?

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Q. What percentage of total expenditure is hardware costs typically?

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Q. What is the main aspect closely linked with the cost of software development?

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Q. What was the situation of data processing personnel in the 1980s?

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Q. What is the net effect of a growing gap between demand and supply of software development?

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Q. What is the impact of a growing gap between demand and supply of software development on the competitive edge of an organization?

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Q. What is the shift from producing software to using software?

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Q. Why are issues of cost and productivity of software development important?

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Q. How can software errors affect organizations on a smaller scale?

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Q. What is the impact of software errors on an organizational scale?

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Q. Why is the quality of the systems we develop increasingly important?

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Q. What are the financial consequences of errors in a software system?

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Q. What is an example of a financial loss due to an error in a software system?

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Q. What are the potential consequences of errors in automated systems?

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Q. What is the importance of the field of software engineering?

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Q. What are the two central themes in the field of software engineering?

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Q. What is the essential characteristics of the field of software engineering?

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Q. What is the difference between programming-in-the-large and programming-in-the-small?

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Q. What is the primary focus of traditional programming techniques and tools?

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