Essentials of Software Engineering Ch. 1-7, 10

(Ch. 1) A typical kind of nonfunctional requirements is...

Performance
real-time processing
modifiability

(Ch. 1) An example of a design constraint imposed by the client may be the programming language for implementation.

True

(Ch. 1) A typical kind of nonfunctional requirements is...

Performance
real-time processing
modifiability

(Ch. 1) An example of a design constraint imposed by the client may be the programming language for implementation.

True

(Ch. 1) An example of a functional requirement is: "Your client wants the newest platform."

False

(Ch. 1) Effort estimation will enable the developer to create...

A cost estimation and a schedule

(Ch. 1) Estimation is more accurate if done for the total time versus dividing the project into bite-size pieces and estimating each piece.

False

(Ch. 1) Extreme Programming practices writing test cases at which point?

Before writing the code

(Ch. 1) What are black-box tests based on, requirements or implementation?

Requirements

(Ch. 1) What are white-box tests based on, requirements or implementation?

Implementation

(Ch. 1) It does not make any performance difference to sort 100 numbers versus sorting close to a million numbers.

False

(Ch. 1) One of the pointers on implementation is to test functions to make sure they work. What type of testing is this?

verification tests

(Ch. 1) Testing done by the client, or somebody on their behalf, to make sure the program runs as specified is considered...

Acceptance testing

(Ch. 1) The design (decisions) constraints imposed in the sorting system are...

Programming language and algorithms

(Ch. 1) Performance will usually be the most important influence in choice of:

Algorithms

(Ch. 1) The final deadline for delivering the project always comes from the programmers because they know how long it will take to finish.

False

(Ch. 1) When a method fails, the code that was defective can be outside of the method's code.

True

(Ch. 1) What are design constraints?

Statements that constrain the ways in which the software can be designed and implemented.

(Ch. 1) Which of the following are design constraints?

the choice of programming language,
platforms the system runs on, and other systems it interfaces with.
These design constraints are sometimes considered nonfunctional requirements

(Ch. 1) What are requirements?

Statements that define or qualify what a program needs to do.

(Ch. 2) A technique to "lessen" the relationships, number of functionalities, amount of interactions, and so on, is called:

Decomposition
Modularization
Incremental iterations

(Ch. 2) A method to simplify a complex problem is:

decomposition
modularization
increment iteration
All of these are correct

(Ch. 2) What is the main area that needs to be coordinated in large software projects?

Process
Product
People
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 2) Important non-technical concerns in large software development are:

effort estimation

(Ch. 2) Important technical concerns in a large software development are:

process and methodology

(Ch. 2) Important nontechnical concerns in large software development are

estimation and planning

(Ch. 2) Methods to simplify a complex problem are...

Decomposition, modularization, and incremental iteration

(Ch. 2) Technique to "lessen" the relationships, number of functionalities, amount of interactions, and so on, are...

Decomposition, modularization, and separation

(Ch. 2) As software becomes present in every part of our daily lives, it also becomes more complex.

True

(Ch. 2) As we grow the software, decision branching is one of the two major examples of growth in depth of complexity.

True

(Ch. 2) Sophisticated users do not need manuals to operate software.

False

(Ch. 2) Current sophisticate users do not need user manuals and product support

False

(Ch. 2) Effort estimation, schedule, assignments, and communications are examples of nontechnical consideration issues.

True

(Ch. 2) The horizontal software refers to:

UI interface
DB interface
error messaging
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 2) Horizontal software refers to specific applications and vertical application refers to common services.

False

(Ch. 2) Large systems require software engineers to consider many aspects of development, including...

Problem and design decomposition
technology and tool considerations
process and methodology
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 2) Once the requirements are documented, a review with the users/customers is done before the design of the software.

True

(Ch. 2) Only team leaders or managers need to be concerned about communication paths within a team.

False

(Ch. 2) The breadth of the software complexity refers to the "relations and interactions" among these functions, components, and so on.

False

(Ch. 2) The issue in software complexity that refers to the "relations and interactions" among these functions, components, and so on, is...

Depth

(Ch. 2) What are the main areas that need to be coordinated in large software projects?

The process, the product, and the people

(Ch. 2) What must we understand before jumping into implementing the solution?

The problem description and requirements

(Ch. 2) When a large number of people are involved in a project, a development process is necessary to help guide and coordinate their activities.

True

(Ch. 2) Technical concerns in developing large systems can involve:

the database
the network
version and configuration control
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 2) More people means there are more communication paths

True

(Ch. 2) What is the increase in the number of maximum communication paths when we grow from a six-person software team to an eight-person software team?

13 = [(8(8-1)) - (6(6-1))]/2

(Ch. 2) What is the maximum number of communications among a team of 25 people?

300 = [N*(N-1)]/2

(Ch. 2) The chance of an error in communication increases with the number of communication paths, not with the number of people who need to communicate.

False

(Ch. 2) With the number of people who need to communicate, the chance of an error in communication increases with the number of communication paths.

True

(Ch. 3) Software engineers need a process because we need to...

Coordinate complex tasks and coordinate a large number of developers

(Ch. 3) Software engineers should conduct their practices at some level of professionalism to ensure that their work results in...

A maintenance of integrity in their professional judgement

(Ch. 3) Software failures can be traced back to poor requirements and lack of user involvement.

True

(Ch. 3) The number of failures in software projects and defects encountered in the software products are very few.

False

(Ch. 3) Which one of the following is not one of the characteristics of software or software projects that the U.S. General Accounting Office "highlighted"?

High customer satisfaction

(Ch. 3) What are the characteristics of software or software projects that the U.S. General Accounting Office "highlighted"?

High-quality, on-time, within budget

(Ch. 3) Which of the following is a basic management strategy recommend by the General Accounting Office?

Focused attention on the software development environment
Disciplined development process
Use of metrics to gauge cost, schedule, and performance targets
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 3) Hand-drawn screens can be used to confirm and validate:

Requirement specification

(Ch. 3) Requirement specification can be tested with:

Hand-drawn screens and a prototype

(Ch. 3) Requirement specification can be quickly tested with...

Hand-drawn prototypes presented to the client and users (low fidelity)

(Ch. 3) Size and complexity are characteristics of both simple and complex software.

True

(Ch. 3) Which of the following is a characteristic of both simple and complex software?

Size
Complexity
People
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 3) Software engineering is an old field and is well established.

False

(Ch. 3) Software engineering is a broad field that touches upon all aspects of developing and supporting a software system.

True

(Ch. 3) Software engineers must conduct their practices at some level of professionalism to minimally ensure that their work results in no harm to society.

True

(Ch. 3) Software engineers must conduct their practices at some level of professionalism to minimally ensure that their work results in which of the following?

No harm

(Ch. 3) Software engineers can also obtain a professional engineer (PE) license in every state of the United States.

False

(Ch. 3) A professional engineer (i.e. in the United States) is a license that is given when an engineer graduates with a bachelor's degree.

False

(Ch. 3) Software engineering must include the code and regulations that its members must uphold to be judged as a:

Professional engineering practice

(Ch. 3) The degree of complexity in software projects has created the need for more:

Discipline and software engineering

(Ch. 3) The software engineering discipline have proven laws and proven principles equivalent to laws of motion or law of thermodynamics.

False (there are a set of proposed principles)

(Ch. 3) The definition of software engineering that points to a multi-person construction of multi-version software is from...

David Parnas

(Ch. 3) Davis's Early Principles include user involvement and clear requirement statements.

True

(Ch. 3) Davis's principle "Follow with Care" is the only one that addresses the importance of people.

False

(Ch. 3) Which of the following is one of Davis's early principles for testing?

Inspect code and get it right before you make it faster.

(Ch. 3) Davis's Early Principles that pertain to testing include:

inspecting code

(Ch. 3) Royce's principles that pertain to testing include:

All of these are correct
Establishing the process for objective quality control and project progress assessment that includes that assessment of all the intermediate artifacts.
Using a demonstration-based approach in which intermediate artifacts are transitioned to executable demonstration of the user scenario so that these artifices can be assessed earlier.

(Ch. 3) Wasserman's metrics are...

Measurements

(Ch. 3) ________ transforms requirements to the solution structure.

Design

(Ch. 3) Coding transforms requirements to the solution structure.

False (Design not coding)

(Ch. 3) The main reasons projects were canceled, uncovered by the Chaos report, are:

Incomplete requirements and lack of user involvement.

(Ch. 3) A project has 3 requirement errors, 4 design errors, and 90 code errors, all found during the compiling phase of the project. Which errors are the most expensive to the project?

The 3 requirement errors

(Ch. 3) The high number of failures in software projects and the high number of defects encountered in the software products are the main reasons for involving _____________ when developing software

Software engineering

(Ch. 3) IBM's earlier corporate values were:

respect others and strive for fairness
perform to one's best capability
follow the law

(Ch. 4) Defining all the software development processes to be completed in a project can be very time-consuming.

True

(Ch. 4) Programmers left alone will often think the single most important task in the development of software is...

Coding

(Ch. 4) What things are defined in a software process model?

The tasks to be performed, the task's input and output, and the task's preconditions and postconditions

(Ch. 4) process models define the:

tasks to be performed
task's input and output
task's preconditions and post conditions
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 4) Projects take a longer time with poor end products and, in worse situations, total project failure because of inconsistency in the:

tasks to be performed and order to perform that tasks.

(Ch. 4) One advantage of the waterfall process is:

it provides a clear way to track the stages of development for the project managers.

(Ch. 4) Which model gave project managers a way to describe the "actual status" versus "almost complete"?

Waterfall model

(Ch. 4) The disadvantage of the waterfall process for software development is:

Very little overlapping of the tasks
It is a single iteration
Sequential order of tasks
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 4) Which model has the disadvantage of very little task overlap, a sequential process, and a single iteration?

Waterfall

(Ch. 4) Which of the following could improve the waterfall model?

Develop multiple components
Overlap the development
Be more evolutionary
→ All of these are correct

(Ch. 4) The need to develop multiple components, to overlap the development, and to be more evolutionary leads to the...

Incremental Model
Spiral Model

(Ch. 4) What concepts drive the RUP framework?

Use-cases and requirements
architecture centric
iterative and incremental development

(Ch. 4) The RUP framework is driven by which of the following major concepts?

Use-case and requirements
Architecture centric
Iterative and incremental
→ All of these are correct.

(Ch. 4) RUP may go through several iterations of all of the phases.

True

(Ch. 4) As a software product is developed using RUP, it may go through several iterations during which of the following?

Inception
Elaboration
Construction
Transition
All of these are correct

(Ch. 4) Which of the following phase (of RUP) has an objective to establish all the major and critical requirements for the system?

Elaboration

(Ch. 4) Which of the following phase (of RUP) has an objective to establish the critical use cases and the major scenarios that will drive the architecture and design?

Inception

(Ch. 4) What types of things are specified in the entry criteria?

Artifacts
people
tools
activity definition

(Ch. 4) Entry criteria include a listing and a description of which of the following resources?

Artifacts
People
Tools
Activity definition
→ All of these are correct