August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Installability
Installability is the ease with which a software system can be installed or uninstalled in a specified environment. The installation process should be easy to understand, and may also provide configuration options as part of the installation. For example, the process may prompt the user to configure things such as the location for the installation, database connection information, and other configuration options for the software.
Another aspect of installability is how the software handles an update/upgrade process. The software system should provide a friendly and usable update process so that a user can upgrade the software to a newer version. The update process should clean up the older version, possibly by automatically ...