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design, test, develop, and maintain high-quality, reliable software•
provide accurate, clear documentation•
understand the environment in which their products are used.•
The importance of this principle to multimedia development would be difficult to
overstate. Multimedia is directly affected by the continual evolution of digital tech-
nology and by the rapid development of new products and services. Maintaining
currency with recent developments in their respective fields is critical to the work
of all multimedia professionals.
The ACM/IEEE code effectively suggests a wide range of guidelines for the profes-
sional practice of software engineering. Many of these also apply ...