A Case-Based Look at Integrating Social Context into Software Quality
This addresses the need for software developers to adapt to changing social and ethical landscapes, but it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts like technological determinism without introducing new methods.
The paper tackles the problem of ensuring high-quality software by integrating social context into design and quality assurance, using technological determinism principles and three illustrative cases to demonstrate its importance and practical application.
Ensuring high-quality software requires considering the social climate within which the applications will be deployed and used. This can be done by designing quality goals and objectives that are consistent with changing social and ethical landscapes. Using principles of technological determinism, this article presents three cases that illustrate why it is becoming even more important to integrate these concerns into software design and quality assurance. With these examples in mind, this article explains how to consider technological determinism in software design and quality assurance practices to achieve this enhanced sensitivity on a practical level.