Why do you think that the ilities are considered a part of systems engineering rather than design?

This worksheet will be graded with the Module Six Assignment .

1. Do the same disciplines apply to software and hardware? For example, does software “break” in the way that hardware does? Does it break without warning and unpredictably at all?

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2. Contrast the “traditional” ilities of reliability and maintainability with those of human factors and environmental engineering. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different?

Your response:

3. Why do you think that the ilities are considered a part of systems engineering rather than design?