Chapter 6, Problem 41CQ

The members of a systems development project team have gone out for lunch together, and as often happens, the conversation has turned to work. The team has been working on the development of the user interface design, and so far, work has been progressing smoothly. The team should be completing work on the interface prototypes early next week. A combination of storyboards and language prototypes has been used in this project. The storyboards depict the overall structure and flow of the system, but the team developed language prototypes of the actual screens because they felt that seeing the actual screens would be valuable for the users.   Chris (the youngest member of the project team): I read an article last night about a really cool way to evaluate a user interface design. It's called usability testing, and it's done by all the major software vendors. I think we should use it to evaluate our interface design. Heather (system analyst): I've heard of that, too, but isn't it really…

Do programmers have a moral or ethical commitment to create code that can be easily maintained, even if the client organization doesn't want it?

In System Design, you should be able to recognize four different models of design.