Software Engineering Case: The Incident Of A Jet

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The incident of a Jet occurred in 2008 named Quantus went into a sudden dive because of computer system failure. There are some injuries to the crew members and passengers before the pilot regain control in a few seconds. The main reason behind the event occurred is of software failure and the system gain access to the normal state quickly. The technical conditions and ethical decisions are not over people lives. They should be held in a more programmatic and should be efficient enough so that such event shouldn’t happen in future. If a crash happened at that time and if the system won’t be able to find the fault in the computer system, everybody and specifically the manufacturer thought that the plane was undone by the pilot’s error. There is one more condition on the usage of software system and even the pilot can’t make any changes to the software system. The control system should be made more sensitive and made to react instantly to the input quality. There is also a possibility if the manufacturer always assumes that the software and plane’s data will be correct all the time. The software engineer often concern to set the software as efficient and accurate so that incidents never occurred because of technological failure. The point that depict the software engineers considers decisive action on the basis of principles of the code. The software engineers considers limits of the state, try to sort out and understand requirements, using skills on designing appropriately and execute them correctly. The later investigation concludes that the human error is also responsible for the Quantus incident. The investigators tried to found the possible factor and claimed that it’s not clear how to add data manually. If the software... ... middle of paper ... ...priority and to make it absolutely correct, cost may be more but you to focuses on happiness and it can include exceptional situations. It can take a lot of time to improve the software and effort and there are some critics of this theory. As sometimes you need to be focused on moral values and on actions, alternatively on the results and motivation of action. Utilitarianism theory depicts or explains about the public safety first as the Quantus Jet incident completely verified on the basis of the same and the manufacturer need to be take care of the fault that occurred and it will be recovered with full efforts and works accurately. The conclusion is that these two theories uses the moral values on the actions or results of actions. So by using these theories the analyses of our event is operational and it utilizes the advantages of the approached theories.

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