Ch.2: RUP & CMMI.

Question 1

What are Booch, Jacobson and Rumbaugh’s 3 object-oriented analysis and design methodologies?

Answer 1

• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Unified Software Development Process (USDP)
• Software development process

Question 2

True or False?

The unified process is a one size fits all methodology

Answer 2

False

The unified process is not a series of steps for constructing a software product

Question 3

The unified process is an ___ methodoldy

Answer 3

adaptable

Question 4

What does UML stand for?

Answer 4

Unified modeling language

Question 5

True or False?

UML is a modeling technique

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What is the aim of the requirements workflow?

Answer 6

To determine the client’s needs

Question 7

What are the steps of the requirements workflow?

Answer 7

1. Gain an understanding of the application domain
2. Build a business model
3. Determine the clients constraints

Question 8

What is the aim of the analysis workflow?

Answer 8

To analyze and refine the requirements

Question 9

How should the artifacts of the requirements workflow be expressed?

Answer 9

In a natural (human) language

Question 10

What are the 2 seperate workflows needed in the analysis workflow?

Answer 10

• Requirement artifacts
• Analysis artifacts

Question 11

What shouldn’t the specification document have?

Answer 11

• Contradictions
• Omissions
• Incompleteness

Question 12

What happens after the client signs off on the specification document?

Answer 12

Detailed planning and estimating begins

Question 13

What is the aim of the design workflow?

Answer 13

Refine the analysis workflow until the material is in a form that can be implemented by the programmers

Question 14

What is the aim of the implementation workflow?

Answer 14

Implement the target software product in the selected implementation language?

Question 15

Who is responsible for the test workflow?

Answer 15

Every developer, maintainer and the quality assurance group

Question 16

Traceability of artifacts is an important requirement for ___

Answer 16

successful testing

Question 17

Who should be present when reviewing analysis artifacts?

Answer 17

Representatives of the client and analysis team

Question 18

What are the 4 types of testing?

Answer 18

• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Product testing
• Acceptance testing

Question 19

When are components tested?

Answer 19

As soon as theyve been implemented

Question 20

What are the 4 phases of the unified process?

Answer 20

• Inception phase
• Elaboration phase
• Construction phase
• Transition phase

Question 21

What is the aim of the elaboration hase?

Answer 21

To refine the initial requirements

• Refine the architecture
• Monitor the risks, refine their priorities
• Refine the business case
• Produce the product management plan

Question 22

What are the major activities of the elaboration phase?

Answer 22

Refinements or elaborations of the previous phase

Question 23

The unified process is a __ dimensional model

Answer 23

2

Question 24

What inevitable changes does the unified process handle well?

Answer 24

• The moving target problem
• The inevitable mistakes

Question 25

What are the software process improvement initiatives?

Answer 25

• Capability matureity model (CMM)
• ISO 9000 series
• ISO/IEC 15504

Question 26

What are the 5 levels of maturity?

Answer 26

1. Initial level
2. Repeatable level
3. Defined level
4. Managed level
5. Optimizing level

Question 27

What are the 10 essentials of RUP?

Answer 27

1. Vision
2. Plan
3. Risks
4. Issues
5. Business Case
6. Architecture
7. Product
8. Evaluation
9. Change Requests
10. User Support