Software Engineering (CS-403) - Important Questions

Differentiate between software product and software process and explain their characteristics

Explain the Linear Sequential (Waterfall) Model and the Spiral Model with neat diagrams and suitable examples.

Define software product and explain characteristics of a good software product

Differentiate between software product characteristics and software process characteristics.

Explain the Linear Sequential Model and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.

What is the Component Assembly Model? How does it differ from the Incremental Model?

Explain the purpose of process customization and improvement with reference to CMM.

Explain the RAD model with neat diagram, its phases, importance, applications and situations where it is useful.

Explain with neat diagram about RAD model.

Elucidate the key features of the software process models with suitable examples?

Describe briefly about Prototyping model for Software development?

Write about CMM (Capability Maturity Model) and how it is used for Software Quality?

Compare and explain function-oriented modeling vs object-oriented (analysis) modeling.

Explain use case modeling / use case model with neat sketch and example.

Explain the components and key contents of a Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document.

Differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements with suitable examples.

Explain functional vs non-functional requirements with suitable examples.

Define Software Requirements in detail.

Explain Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and Requirement Validation

What are the major requirement elicitation techniques? Discuss any two in detail.

Describe different checks to be carried out during requirement validation process?

What are the activities of requirement elicitation and analysis? Explain.

Explain the use-case model, its basic parts and how to construct it, with sketch/example.

Substantiate that functional requirements specification should be both complete and consistent with examples.

Explain Function-Oriented design in detail.

Explain the software design process and discuss important design concepts and principles.

Explain architectural design with an example.

Describe any four fundamental software design principles.

Explain the SA/SD approach to function-oriented design.

Explain what architectural views are and describe different architectural styles.

What are the key design metrics used to evaluate software design quality?

What are design metrics and why are they important? Explain key metrics used to evaluate software / object-oriented design quality.

How system modeling is achieved using UML? Explain with a suitable example.

Discuss about pattern based software design in detail?

List and explain different software architecture styles and patterns.

List and explain the golden rules of User-Interface design?

Explain black-box testing and its techniques such as boundary value analysis with an example

Differentiate between function-oriented (structured) and object-oriented software development and analysis.

Explain black box and white box software testing techniques in detail with suitable examples.

Discuss the importance of Code Inspection in software quality assurance.

What is system testing (and software testing)? Explain system testing in detail including its types.

Differentiate between static and dynamic code analysis.

Differentiate between Function-Oriented and Object-Oriented Software development?

What is Test Oracles? Explain different types of test techniques.

Briefly discuss about Integration testing Strategies?

With neat sketch explain briefly about testing levels?

What is White-Box testing? How white box testing is carried out ? Demonstrate With example.

What is white-box testing, how is it carried out with example, and what are the difficulties in exercising it?

Explain Software Configuration Management (SCM) and its major activities.

Explain the need/purpose of software maintenance and its different types with examples

Explain feasibility analysis and its types.

Explain Software Configuration Management (SCM).

Explain why software used in a real-world environment must change and the need for software maintenance with examples

Explain reverse engineering and re-engineering in detail.

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Discuss about Risk Assessment and Mitigation.

What is Re-Engineering and discuss about steps involved in Re-Engineering?

Discuss the functions / major activities of SCM with suitable example.

Explain the principles of risk assessment and mitigation.

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