Software
crisis represent various problems that are faced by the software developers
during software development process. Following are the symptoms of present
software crisis:
1. Day-by-day,
software purchase cost is getting more than the hardware purchase cost. Hence
major part of the budget of nay software industry is on software purchase.
2. Software
products are difficult to alter, maintain, enhance, debug or modify.
3. Software
resources are not being used optionally.
4. User
requirements are often evolving and cannot be satisfied fully.
5. Software
product not being reliable.
6. Many
time software products get crashed on occurrence of specific condition.
7. Delivery
of software product within specified budget and on scheduled time.
Various
factors that have contributed to make software crisis:
Following
are some factors that bring the software crisis:
1. Increasing
size or volume of software.
2. Lowered
productivity or quality improvement.
3. Lack
of skilled staff.
4. Inadequate
software training.
5. Growing
demand for more software.
Solutions
to present software crisis:
The
most effective solution to present software crisis cab be:
1. Use
and spread of software engineering practices among software engineers.
2. Further
enhancement in software engineering disciplines.
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