Question

Explain the importance of evaluating solutions, after development work on the software forming the solution ked out of has been completed and the software has been implemented (put into operation/use). Ensure you consider multiple perspectives in your response - you are expected to identify at least 3 different benefits from performing this evaluation.

Answer 1

The importance of evaluating solutions, after development work on the software forming the solution ked out of has been completes and the software has been implemeneted and identify at least 3 benefits from performing this evaluation --  

• The software evalution is represented as process of maintaining, developing and updating software for different reasons. These factors can be --
• Environment changes, Errors and security breaches, requirement changes, improvemnets to the sytsem and new equipment added or removed.
• The evaluation software can be based on two approaches which is --
• Criteria based approach -- It is a quantative assessment of the software in terms of maintainability, sustainablity and usability.
• This helps to identify high level decisions on specific area for software improvement.
• Tutorial based approach -- It provides a progmatic evaluation of usability of the software in form of reproducible record of experience.
• While adopting the above approaches, you should consider --
• A software package which is released by as binary.
• An online portal
• A software packages which is released as a source which the user must build.
• A set of service end point for example - REST services or web services.
• Different types of Software maintenance include -- Corrective maintenance, Adapyie maintenance, Perfective maintainenace and preventive maintenance.
• The benefits of software evaluation --
• Reduced Risk
• Reduced Cost
• This include benefits of mining information in software repositories like source control sytsem and archieved communication between project personnel and defect tracking system and support maintainenace of software system and improve software design and reuse.