The choice to use only Measurement Strategy Beta would be vulnerable t

QUESTION

The choice to use only Measurement Strategy Beta would be vulnerable to criticism because it would give the software programmers an incentive to do what?

A) make overly optimistic commitments to customer-facing employees at the company
B) spend too much time checking their code in order to eliminate any possibility of error
C) develop projects that meet programming requirements but not market requirements
D) skip the quality assurance checks that reveal the most damaging software errors
E) produce more lines of code than is required to perform a given function

ANSWER

Answer: B
Explanation: B) Avoiding errors is good, but so is finishing on time. If the focus is only on avoiding errors, then the software programmers will spend way too much time avoiding any chance that there is an error in their code somewhere. Choice B describes this issue. Choices A and C are relevant to Gamma. Choice D would be solved by Beta. Choice E is a problem with Alpha.