Getting Started with Software Engineering #1

Question 1

What are the 6 software engineer specialties?

Answer 1

1. Embedded and Application
2. Front-End
3. Infrastructure and Cloud
   4.Machine Learning and Data Science
4. Mobile
5. Test and Quality Assurance

Question 2

What is Software?

Answer 2

Computer programs and associated documentation

Question 3

What are the different types of software

Answer 3

1. Generic : software that is developed to be sold to a range of different customers (general market)
2. Bespoke (custom) : developed for a single customer according to their specification

Question 4

When was the term “Software Engineering” first established?

Answer 4

1968

Question 5

What is Software Engineering?

Answer 5

An engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production from the early stages of system specification to maintaining the system after it has gone into use

Question 6

Whats Computer Science?

Answer 6

Computer Science is concerned with theory and fundamentals.

Question 7

What’s System Engineering?

Answer 7

System Engineering is concerned with all aspects of computer-based systems development including hardware, software and process engineering.

Question 8

What are the costs of software engineering?

Answer 8

Roughly 60% of costs are development costs and 40% are testing costs.

Question 9

What cost more?
1. developing software
2. maintaining software

Answer 9

Maintaining Software

Question 10

What are attributes of good software

Answer 10

1. meets the required functionality
2. maintainability (should be able to evolve)
3. Dependability (software must be trustworthy)
4. Efficiency (should not waste resources)
5. Usability (must be usable by the user for which who it was intend for)

Question 11

Key Challenges in Software Engineering?

Answer 11

1. legacy systems (outdated systems)
2. Heterogeneity (increase in diversity)
3. Delivery (demands on a faster delivery date)

Question 12

What does SDLC stand for?

Answer 12

Software Development Life Cycle

Question 13

What are the 6 stages of SDLC

Answer 13

1. Planning
2. Analysis
3. Design
4. Implementation
5. Testing and Integration
6. Maintenance

Question 14

What does ALM stand for?

Answer 14

Application Lifecycle Management

Question 15

what is software design?

Answer 15

Is concerned withe the sub-parts of the system
- algorithm
-how components are designed internally

Question 16

what is software architecture

Answer 16

Is concerned with system level design decisions
- how the components with fit together as a whole
- interfaces
system level performance

Question 17

what does UML stand for

Answer 17

Unified Modeling Language

Question 18

what does SysML stand for

Answer 18

system modeling language