Choose a software program you use frequently. This could be a game, social media platform, productivity tool, or anything else. Analyze its functionalities and identify six areas for improvement. For each improvement, describe the benefit it would bring to the user experience.

Imagine you’re designing a software system for a library. List at least six functional requirements this system should meet.

Besides functionality, what are at least three nonfunctional requirements that are important for a library information system? Explain why each requirement is important.

What are the questions that should be answered by each team member at the daily Scrum meeting?

Safety critical applications are key components of a system that would severely impact the safety and well-being of the users and bystanders. Provide an example of a safety critical application that, if the software of that component would fail, could cause catastrophic consequences to the life and safety of users and bystanders.

Research the Boeing 737 Max 8 Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software and sensor problem. What went wrong and how could Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have done a better job of developing and testing a safety critical application?

As a software developer, you wrote a routine that converts degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius and you want to test it. How would you suggest performing unit testing of this functionality?

Explain how you could create an open world machine learning bot that could trade on a financial exchange.

Identify new examples of software as a differentiator for products and services.