Lesson 2 - S/W engineering process categories and prescriptive process models (Ch 3, Ch 4)

Question 1

classic life cycle - old fashioned but reasonable approach when requirements are well understood

Answer 1

Waterfall model

Question 2

deliver software in a small but usable pieces, each piece builds on pieces already delivered

Answer 2

Incremental models

Question 3

Prototyping model, spiral model

Answer 3

evolutionary models

Question 4

good first step when customer has a legitimate need, but is clueless about the details, developers needs to resist pressure to extend a rough prototype into a production product

Answer 4

prototyping model

Question 5

couples iterative nature of prototyping with the controlled and systematic aspects of the waterfall model

Answer 5

spiral model

Question 6

allows software teams to represent the iterative and concurrent element of any process model

Answer 6

concurrent development model

Question 7

spiral model variation in which applications are built from prepackaged software components called classes

Answer 7

component-based development

Question 8

rigorous mathematical notation used to specify design, and verify computer-based systems

Answer 8

formal methods model

Question 9

provides a process for defining, specifying, designing, and constructing software aspects like user interfaces, security, and memory management that impact many parts of the system being developed

Answer 9

aspect-oriented s/w developement

Question 10

executes each of the framework activities in order beginning with communication and ending with deployment

Answer 10

Linear process

Question 11

executes the activities in a circular manner creating a more complete version of the software with each circuit or iteration

Answer 11

iterative process

Question 12

executes one on more activities in parallel with other activities

Answer 12

parallel process

Question 13

Standard CMMI Assessment Method, CMM-Based appraisal for internal process process improvement, SPICE ISO/IE15504, ISO 9001:2000

Answer 13

Process Assessment and improvement

Question 14

provides a five step process assessment model that incorporates five phases (initiating, diagnosing, establishing, acting, learning)

Answer 14

Standard CMMI Assessment Methods for Process Improvement (SCAMPI)

Question 15

provides diagnostic technique for assessing the relative maturity of a software organization

Answer 15

CMM-Based Appraisal of Internal Process Improvement (CBAIPI)

Question 16

standard defines a set of requirements for process assessment

Answer 16

SPICE (ISO/IE15504)

Question 17

defines requirements for a quality management system that will produce higher quality products and improve customer satisfaction

Answer 17

ISO 9001:2000

Question 18

• Originally proposed to bring order to the chaos of software development.
• they brought to software engineering work and provide reasonable guidance to software teams
• they have not provided a definitive answer to the problems of software development in an ever changing computing environment

Answer 18

prescriptive process models

Question 19

waterfall model, incremental models, evolutionary models, concurrent development model, component-based development, formal methods model, aspect-oriented software development

Answer 19

software process models

Question 20

• used to adapt process models to be used by software project team
• allow organizations to build automated models of common process framework, task sets, and umbrella activities
• these automated models can be used to determine workflow and examine alternative process structures
• tools can be used to allocate, monitor, and even control all software engineering tasks defined as part of the process model

Answer 20

process technology tools