  Ensuring high-quality software requires considering the social climate within
which the applications will be deployed and used. This can be done by designing
quality goals and objectives that are consistent with changing social and
ethical landscapes. Using principles of technological determinism, this article
presents three cases that illustrate why it is becoming even more important to
integrate these concerns into software design and quality assurance. With these
examples in mind, this article explains how to consider technological
determinism in software design and quality assurance practices to achieve this
enhanced sensitivity on a practical level.
