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QUESTION BANK
SUB CODE / SUBJECT: CS1301/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING YEAR / SEM: III / V
UNIT 1-SOFTWARE PROCESS
Part A (2 marks)
1. What is software engineering?
2. What is Software?
3. Write out the reasons for the Failure of Water Fall Model.
4. What are the characteristics of the software?
5. Define the terms :
i. Agility
ii. Agile Team
6. What are the various categories of software?
7. What are the challenges in software?
8. Define software process
9. What are the fundamental activities of a software process? 10.What are the umbrella activities of a software process? 11.What are the merits of incremental model?
12.List the task regions in the Spiral model. 13.What are the drawbacks of spiral model? 14.What is System Engineering?
15.List the process maturity levels in SEIs CMM. 16.What is an effectors process?
17.Define the computer based system. 18.What does Verification represent? 19.What does Validation represent?
20.What is the difference between the "Known Risks" and Predictable
Risks"?
21.What are the steps followed in testing?
PART B
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Explain iterative waterfall and spiral model for software life cycle and
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various activities in each phase.
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2.
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Explain about the incremental model.
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3.
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Explain in detail about the software process.
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4.
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Explain in detail about the life cycle process.
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5.
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Explain Spiral model and win-win spiral model in detail?
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UNIT II-SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
PART A (2 marks)
1. What is the use of CMM?
2. Name the Evolutionary process Models.
3. What are the Objectives of Requirement Analysis?
4. What is requirement engineering?
5. What are the various types of traceability in software engineering?
6. Define software prototyping.
7. What are the Requirements Engineering Process Functions?
8. What are the benefits of prototyping?
9. What are the prototyping approaches in software process? 10.What are the Difficulties in Elicitation?
11.What are the advantages of evolutionary prototyping? 12.What are the various Rapid prototyping techniques? 13.What is the use of User Interface prototyping? 14.What is System Modeling?
15.What are the characteristics of SRS?
16.What are the objectives of Analysis modeling? 17.What is data modeling?
18.What is a data object? 19.What are attributes?
20.What is cardinality in data modeling?
21.What does modality in data modeling indicates? 22.What is ERD?
23.What is DFD?
24.What does Level0 DFD represent? 25.What is a state transition diagram? 26.Define Data Dictionary.
PART B
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Explain in detail about Functional Modeling.
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2.
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Explain in detail about Structural Modeling.
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3.
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Explain in detail about data modeling.
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4.
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Explain about rapid prototyping techniques.
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5.
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Explain the prototyping approaches in software process.
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UNIT III-DESIGN CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES
PART A (2 marks)
1. What are the elements of Analysis model?
2. What are the elements of design model?
3. How the Architecture Design can be represented?
4. Define design process.
5. List the principles of a software design.
6. What is the benefit of modular design?
7. What is a cohesive module?
8. What are the different types of Cohesion?
9. What is coupling?
10.What are the various types of coupling?
11.What are the common activities in design process? 12.What are the benefits of horizontal partitioning? 13.What is vertical partitioning?
14.What are the advantages of vertical partitioning? 15.What are the various elements of data design? 16.List the guidelines for data design.
17.Name the commonly used architectural styles. 18.What is Transform mapping?
PART B
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Explain in detail the design concepts.
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2.
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Explain the design principles.
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3.
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Explain the design steps of the transform mapping.
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4.
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Explain in detail about the real time systems.
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5.
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Explain in detail about SCM.
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UNIT IV-TESTING
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PART A (2 marks)
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What is a Real time system?
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2.
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What is SCM?
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3.
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What is SCI?
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4.
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Define software testing?
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5.
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Define Smoke Testing ?
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6. What are the objectives of testing?
7. What are the testing principles the software engineer must apply while performing the software testing?
8. Define White Box Testing?
9. What are the two levels of testing?
10.What are the various testing activities? 11.Write short note on black box testing. 12.What is equivalence partitioning? 13.What is Regression Testing?
14.What is a boundary value analysis?
15.What are the reasons behind to perform white box testing? 16.What is cyclomatic complexity?
17.How to compute the cyclomatic complexity? 18.Distinguish between verification and validation.
19.What are the various testing strategies for conventional software? 20.Write about drivers and stubs.
21.What are the approaches of integration testing?
22.What are the advantages and disadvantages of big-bang? 23.What are the benefits of smoke testing?
24.What are the conditions exists after performing validation testing? 25.Distinguish between alpha and beta testing.
26.What are the various types of system testing?
PART B
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Explain the types of software testing.
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2.
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Explain in detail about Black box testing.
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3.
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Explain about the software testing strategies.
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4.
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Explain in detail about Integration testing.
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5.
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Explain in detail about system testing.
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UNIT V-SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PART A (2 marks)
1. Define debugging.
2. What are the common approaches in debugging?
3. Write about the types of project plan.
4. Define measure.
5. Define metrics.
6. What are the types of metrics?
7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of size measure?
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8. Write short note on the various estimation techniques.
9. What is the Objective of Formal Technical Reviews? 10.What is COCOMO model?
11.Give the procedure of the Delphi method. 12.What is the purpose of timeline chart? 13.What is EVA?
14.What are the metrics computed during error tracking activity? 15.Why software change occurs?
16.Write about software change strategies. 17.Define CASE Tools.
18.What is software maintenance? 19.Define maintenance.
20.What are the types of software maintenance? 21.What is architectural evolution?
22.How the CASE tools are classified? 23.What are the types of static testing tools?
Part B
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1.
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Explain about software cost estimation.
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2.
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Explain in detail about COCOMO model.
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3.
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Explain in detail about Delphi Method.
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4.
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Explain in detail about software Maintenance.
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5.
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Explain about CASE tools.
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Don't ever give up.
Even when it seems impossible,
Something will always
pull you through.
The hardest times get even
worse when you lose hope.
As long as you believe you can do it, You can.
But When you give up,
You lose !
I DONT GIVE UP.....!!!
with regards
prem sasi kumar arivukalanjiam
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