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Software Engineering ANJUM ALI

Experiment No.1

1) Understanding Software Crisis


Background: In the early years of computers applications, the focus of the development and innovation
were on hardware. Software was largely views as an afterthought. Computer programming was an art.
Programmers did not follow any disciplined or formalized approaches. This way of doing things was
adequate for a while, until the sophisticated of computer applications outgrow. Software soon took over
and more functions which were done manually. A software houses begin to develop for widespread
distribution. Software development projects produced thousands of source program statement. With
the increase in the size and complexity of the software, following situation resulted is collectively
termed as software crisis.

1. Time Slippage

2. Cost Slippage

3. Failure at customer Site

4. Intractable Error after delivery

Problem Description: In the context of this background, for each of the scenario mentioned below,
identify the most appropriate problem related to software crisis and mention the same in the table
provided.

Background: In the early years of computers applications, the focus of the development and innovation
were on hardware. Software was largely views as an afterthought. Computer programming was an art.
Programmers did not follow any disciplined or formalized approaches. This way of doing things was
adequate for a while, until the sophisticated of computer applications outgrow. Software soon took over
and more functions which were done manually. A software houses begin to develop for widespread
distribution. Software development projects produced thousands of source program statement. With
the increase in the size and complexity of the software, following situation resulted is collectively
termed as software crisis.

1. Time Slippage

2. Cost Slippage

3. Failure at customer Site

4. Intractable Error after delivery

Problem Description: In the context of this background, for each of the scenario mentioned below,
identify the most appropriate problem related to software crisis and mention the same in the table
provided.
Software Engineering ANJUM ALI

Scenario A: Railways reservation software was delivered to the customer and was installed in one of the
metro station at 12.00 AM (mid-night) as per the plan. The system worked quite fine till the next day
12.00 PM (noon). The system crashed at 12.00 PM and the railways authorities could not continue using
software for reservation till 02.00 PM. It took two hours to fix the defect in the software in the software.
Scenario B: A polar satellite launch vehicle was scheduled for the launch on August 15th. The auto-pilot
of the rocket to be delivered for integration of the rocket on may 15th. The design and development of
the software for the auto-pilot more effort because of which the auto-pilot was delivered for the
integration on June 15th (delayed by a month). The rocket was launched on Sep 15th (delayed by a
month).

Scenario C: Software for financial systems was delivered to the customer. Customer informed the
development team about a mal-function in the system. As the software was huge and complex, the
development team could not identify the defect in the software.

Scenario D: Due to the defect in the software for the baggage handling system. There was also loss of
$2M of revenues for the airport authorities.

Scenario Situations (as given A to D)

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