Deck 2: Software Development and Engineering: Processes, Methods, and Tools

Question 1

Discuss how poor management decisions can impact software quality?

Answer 1

-Estimation decisions - irrational delivery date estimates cause teams to take short-cuts that can lead to reduced product quality
-Scheduling decisions - failing to pay attention to task dependencies when creating the project schedule may force the project team to test modules without their subcomponents and quality may suffer
-Risk-oriented decisions - reacting to each crisis as it arises rather than building in mechanisms to monitor risks and having established contingency plans may result in products having reduced quality

Question 2

List the four design models required for a complete specification of a software design and the role of each.

Answer 2

Data design - high level model depicting user's view of the data or information.

Question 3

Describe the types of dependencies that can exist in an architectural design.

Answer 3

Sharing dependencies - represent the dependence relationships among consumers whose use the same source or producers who have the same consumers.
Flow dependencies - represent dependence relationships between producers and consumers of resources
Constrained dependencies - represent constraints on the relative flow of control among a set of activities

Question 4

Describe statistical quality assurance?

Question 5

How is software scope defined?

Question 6

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

Question 7

What are the steps used to complete the component-level design for a software development project?

Question 8

List the characteristics that should be considered when considering potential classes for inclusion in an analysis model

Question 9

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

Question 10

List the types of models that might be used in requirements modeling and explain the role of each type of model

Question 11

Describe what is accomplished during the component qualification,adaptation,and composition activities of component-based development.

Question 12

Explain what is wrong with the notion that computer software does not need to evolve over time.

Question 13

Describe the relationships among software engineering process,methods,and tools.

Question 14

Under what circumstances should requirements modeling be utilized for Web or mobile apps?

Question 15

Describe the differences between software construction and software deployment.

Question 16

Describe three control structure testing strategies.

Question 17

What are the key differences between validation testing goals and acceptance testing goals?