Exam 2 Software Process

Question 1

A general term describing the over-arching process of developing software.

Answer 1

Software Process

Question 2

What are the five elements of the Software Process?

Answer 2

Requirements Gathering
Design
Implementation
Testing 
Maintenance

Question 3

What is the primary object-oriented methodology?

Answer 3

The unified process

Question 4

an adaptive methodology for software construction

Answer 4

Unified Process

Question 5

The 5 phases of the unified process

Answer 5

requirements workflow
analysis workflow
design workflow
implementation workflow
test workflow

Question 6

What is meant by a phase of the Unified Process?

Answer 6

A phase is a series of smaller steps in a larger process

Question 7

Who is responsible for the correctness of a product?

Answer 7

SQA Group (Software Quality Assurance)

Question 8

What are CASE tools used for?

Answer 8

Software tools that assist software engineering teams in developing and maintaining software.

Question 9

Name the 7 types of Team Organizations

Answer 9

Democratic Teams
Classical Chief Programmer Teams
Modified Chief Programmer Teams
Modern Hierarchical Programming Teams
Synchronize and Stabilize Teams
Agile Process Teams
Open-Source Teams

Question 10

Democratic Teams

Answer 10

Strengths
High-quality code
good with hard problems

Weakness
senior members may resent appraisals
cannot be externally imposed

Question 11

Classical Chief Programmer Teams

Answer 11

Strength
Major success of The New York Times project

Weakness
Impractical

Question 12

Modified Chief Programmer Teams

Answer 12

Strength
Many Successes

Weakness
No successes on a large scale

Question 13

Modern Hierarchical Programming Teams

Answer 13

Team Manager structure eliminates the need for a chief programmer
scales up
supports decentralization when needed

Weakness
Problems can arise unless areas of responsibility of the team manager and the team leader are clearly delineated

Question 14

Synchronize-and-stabilize teams

Answer 14

Strength
Encourages creativity
Ensures that a huge number of developers can work toward a common goal

Weakness
No evidence so far that this method can be utilized out side of microsoft

Question 15

Agile Process Teams

Answer 15

Strengths
Programmers do not tes their own code
Knowledge is not lost if one programmer leaves
Less-experienced programmers can learn from others

Weakness
Still too little evidence regarding efficacy

Question 16

Pair Programming Advantages and Disadvantages

Answer 16

Strengths
Team members benefit from each others experience
Programs have fewer bugs

Weaknesses
requires large blocks of uninterrupted time
does not work for shy or overbearing programmers

Question 17

Walkthrough vs Testing

Answer 17

Walkthrough takes less time and has few steps