L3 - Software Process, Algorithm Design with Flowcharts

Question 1

What is the software production process?

Answer 1

**Set of activities that lead to the production of software**

• Requirements Gathering
• Designing and implementation
• Validation
• Maintenance

Question 2

What are the different software development methodologies?

Answer 2

********Choice of development process mainly depends on the type of the software project and group size**********

• Waterfall
• Agile
• Scrum
• Extreme
• Lean

Question 3

What is software design?

Answer 3

• Process of envisioning
• Defining software solutions to one or more sets of problems
• Based on a specification
• Uses diagrams such as flowcharts, entity relationships

Question 4

Why is software design important?

Answer 4

Important because:

• Customer gets and idea of final product
• Better understand the resource requirements
• Efficient implementation of the solution
• Easy to maintain

Question 5

What are flowcharts?

Answer 5

• Represents algorithms
  
  • Helps think about and plans functionality
  • Shows others about the thought behind it
• Contains a start and end and shows the order of instructions that are performed
  
  • Through inputs and outputs
  • Where decisions are made about what to do next

Question 6

What do the diffent symbols in a flowchart show?

Answer 6