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Intro to Software Engineering (MCIT 591) > Program Design & Analysis > Flashcards

Program Design & Analysis Flashcards

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Software development

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Writing a program

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Object-oriented program

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Uses interacting objects

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Program specification

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Description of a task

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Program design

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A written plan, an overview of the solution

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Program implementation

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The code

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Program maintenance

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Keeping the program working and up to date

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Top-down development

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Implement main class first, subsidiary classes later

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Independent class

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Doesn’t use other classes of the program in its code

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Bottom-up development

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Implement lowest level, independent classes first

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Driver class

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Used to test other classes; contains main method

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Inheritance relationship

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Is-a relationship between classes

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Composition relationship

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Has-a relationship between classes

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Inheritance hierarchy

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Inheritance relationship shown in a tree like diagram

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UML diagram

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Tree-like representation of relationship between classes

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Data structure

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Java construct for storing a data field (e.g., array)

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Information hiding

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Using private to restrict access

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Stepwise refinement

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Breaking methods into smaller methods

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Procedural abstraction

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Using helper methods

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Algorithm

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Step-by-step process that solves a problem

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Stub method

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Dummy method called by another method being tested

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Robust program

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Screens out bad inputs

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Compile-time error

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Usually a syntax error; prevents program from compiling

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Syntax error

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Bad language usage (e.g., missing brace)

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Run-time error

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Occurs during execution (e.g., int division by 0)

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Exception

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Run-time error thrown by Java method

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Logic error

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Program runs but does the wrong thing

Intro to Software Engineering (MCIT 591) (17 decks)

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