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Question 1

What is Quality control?

Answer 1

checking the software to ensure procedures and standards are followed by the developers.

Question 2

What is quality reviews?

Answer 2

-validating the quality of a software (code, design, specifications, test plans, standards, etc..) by group of people.

Question 3

State types of quality reviews and it’s objectives:-

• _____________________________.
• _____________________________.
• _____________________________.

Answer 3

• Inspections ——> remove defects.
• Reviews ——>progress assessment.
• Quality ——->reviews product and standards.

Question 4

what is Inspection checklists?

Answer 4

Checklist of common errors used to drive the inspection.

Question 5

State the six fault classes in inspection checklist:-

Answer 5

Data faults,
Control faults,
Input/output faults,
Interface faults,
Storage Management faults,
Exception Management faults.

Question 6

Agile processes rarely use formal inspection. Rather it depends on ____________________________.

Answer 6

each team member check the other’s code and informal guidelines.

Question 7

What is Software measurement?

Answer 7

numeric value for an attribute of a software product.

“It allows the comparisons between techniques and processes.”

Question 8

What is Software metric?

Answer 8

Any type of measurement which relates to a software system, process.

Question 9

Types of Software metrics:-

• ______________________.
• ______________________.

Answer 9

control metrics —-> associated with Software processes.

Predictor metrics —–> associated with S/W products.

Question 10

Give an examples of control and Predictor metrics.

Answer 10

Examples

control metric —-> average effort and time to repair defect.

Predictor metrics —-> complexity of a module , average length of identifiers in the program.

Question 11

Metrics assumptions

Answer 11

relationship between what we can measure and what we want to know.

Question 12

State the types of Product metrics?

Answer 12

Dynamic metrics —-> measurements made of a program in execution.
also helps in measuring efficiency and reliability.

Static metrics—–> measurements of the system representations.
also helps in measuring complexity and maintainability.

Question 13

Software component analysis:-

System component can be analyzed separately using a ____(1)_____.
_____(2)_______:measurements that deviate significantly from the norm.

Answer 13

1) range of metrics

2) Anomalous measurements

Question 14

Reducing the number of _______ in a program leads to an increased number
of help desk calls

Answer 14

faults