Week 1 - Best practices

Question 1

What are the 6 best practices of software engineering?

Answer 1

1. Develop software iteratively
2. Manage requirements
3. Use component based architectures
4. Visually Model Software
5. Verify Software Quality
6. Control Changes to Software

Question 2

Why is it better to develop software iteratively?

Answer 2

1. Reduces risk (risk is contained within the first few iterations rather than throughout the entire project)
2. Continuous testing and development.
3. Risks are resolved before making large investments.

Question 3

Why is it important to manage requirements?

Answer 3

1. They are dynamic, should be organized to maintain mutual understanding between client and team.
2. Catch requirement errors

Question 4

What does it meant to use a component architecture?

Answer 4

The code should be modular: Maintainability, reusability, division of work, encapsulation, incremental additions.

Question 5

Why is it important to visually model software?

Answer 5

Improves ability to manage software complexity.

Question 6

How and why do we verify software quality?

Answer 6

1. Continuous testing.
2. Software problems are costly to repair after deployment.

Question 7

What does it mean to control changes to software and why?

Answer 7

1. Organizing parallel work by assigning each subsystem to a team.
2. Organizes parallel development.