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1:
What's the difference between a component and a peripheral?
2:
How can you tell if a bug you find is a general problem or a specific configuration problem?
3:
How could you guarantee that your software would never have a configuration problem?
4:
Some companies purchase generic hardware and put their names on it, selling it as their own. You'll often see this on lower-priced peripherals sold in computer superstores. The same "cloned" peripheral might be sold under different names in different stores. True or False: Only one version of a cloned sound card needs to be considered when selecting the configurations to test.
5:
In addition to age and popularity, what other criteria might you use to equivalence partition hardware for configuration testing?
6:
Is it acceptable to release a software product that has configuration bugs?