When Sued for Negligence, a Software Developer Is Not Held

question 20

Multiple Choice

When sued for negligence, a software developer is not held responsible for every product defect that could have been detected that causes customer or third-party loss. Instead, responsibility is limited to ____.

• A) harmful defects that could have been detected and corrected through "reasonable" software development practices
• B) the most harmful defects that cause the most serious problems
• C) those defects uncovered in the first 90 days of product usage
• D) those defects for which no software upgrades have been released