Deck 5: Agile Processes, Testing Strategies, Metrics, and Risk Management.

Question 1

List four content architectures found in WebApps?

Answer 1

Linear structures
Grid structures
Hierarchical structures
Networked or pure web structures

Question 2

Describe all activities that must occur in order to produce a Risk Mitigation,Monitoring,and Management Plan.

Answer 2

Risk Identification - determine the risks that are appropriate
Risk Projection - determine the likelihood that each risk will occur and the damage likely to occur
Risk Mitigation - figuring out strategies to avoid the risks
Risk Management and Contingency Planning - assuming each risk becomes a reality determine ways to limit their impact

Question 3

Explain how size-oriented metrics differ from function-oriented metrics.Discuss the pros and cons of each.

Answer 3

Size-oriented measures are computed by normalizing direct measures of the software engineering process (e.g.effort or defects)over the product size,measured in lines of code.Function-oriented measures are indirect measures that are computed from measures of the information domain of a business application and an assessment of its complexity.Size-oriented metrics are relatively easy to collect,but can present problems when component-based or visual programming methods are applied.Function-oriented metrics can be determined much earlier in the software cycle,but are an abstraction that is open to interpretation.

Question 4

What characteristics need to be exhibited by organization to improve its software process?

Question 5

Describe the process of writing a formal specification for some system function.

Question 6

Describe three partitioning strategies that can be used when performing class level testing for OO systems.

Question 7

What are the steps in the engineering process model for developing MobileApps?

Question 8

Describe the role of class-oriented metrics in assessing the quality of an OO system.

Question 9

Describe the five activities associated with the software measurement process.

Question 10

How does business process reengineering (BPR)differ from software reengineering?

Question 11

What types of testing should be followed in a comprehensive MobileApp testing strategy.

Question 12

Describe statistical quality assurance?

Question 13

Describe the WebApp interface testing strategy.

Question 14

Explain the differences between model-driven and test-driven software development?

Question 15

Describe practices that enable designers to think about using patterns