Professional standards questions
Q1. Explain why 10 people working in a team designing a new network for a national company should produce documents that all look the same and follow a recognised standard.
Q2. Explain why the technical documentation produced for a new computer game should form part of the technical documentation for that software product.
Q3. Describe three reasons why a software application might have to be changed in the future.
Q4. Describe three examples of standards that programmers might have to adhere to when writing code for a new application.
Q5. What problems might a company have if a key employee leaves the company suddenly and they have not been keeping records about what they have been doing?
Q6. What is meant by a template?
Q7. Why is it important for variables in a program to follow a naming convention?
Q8. Why is it important to have a convention for naming the versions of documents when they are saved on a computer?
Q9. What is meant by software 'maintenance'?
Q10. In companies, whose responsibility is it to ensure that procedures are actually being followed?