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Describe a composed relationship

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A composed relationship uses “has-a”.

It is denoted by a closed diamond

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What is a “uses” relationship?

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A uses relationship is an association

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What are “is-a” relationships?

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The two “is-a” relationships are generalizations and realizations.

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What is involved in software requirements engineering?

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Feasibility and elicitation are involved in software requirements engineering.

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What are the types of requirements?

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There are four types of requirements

1) Functional
2) Non-functional
3) Business
4) User

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What are some common requirements risks?

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Some common requirements risks are gold-plating, overlooked stakeholders and feature creep.

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What is requirements management?

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Requirements management involves tracking and tracing requirements.

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What are the 2 types of CMMI?

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The two types of CMMI are

1) Continuous
2) Staged

Continuous analyzes a process capability model and staged analyzes an organizations maturity level.

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CMMI improves an organization’s performance and identifies an organization’s strengths and weakness in regards to what?

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In regards to project planning and risk management

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What are some agile methods?

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A few agile methodologies are
Scum
FDD
XP

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What is the agile methodology?

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The agile methodology is an iterative method that is focused on code rather than specifications

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What is Rapid Application Development (RAD)

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RAD is a fast waterfall for projects with well-understood requirements

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What are general principles of software engineering practice?

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Three general Principles of software engineering practice are

1) Simplicity
2) Reuse
3) Readability

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What questions do an SRS document answer?

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An SRS document answers functionalities, dependencies and performance

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What are functional requirements?

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Functional requirements specific activities that a system MUST perform

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What is the waterfall model?

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The waterfall model is a six step process

1) Requirements
2) Design
3) Implementation
4) Testing
5) Deployment
6) Maintenance

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What are the seven levels of cohesion from high to low?

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1) Functional
2) Sequential
3) Communicational
4) Procedural
5) Temporal
6) Logical
7) Coincidental

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What is requirements engineering?

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Requirements engineering is a 4 step process:

1) Elicitation
2) Specification
3) V & V
4) Management

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What are the 7 steps in the software development life cycle?

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The seven steps in SDLC are:

1) Planning
2) Requirements Analysis
3) Design
4) Implementation / Code
5) Testing
6) Deployment
7) Maintenance

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What is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

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There are five levels in the CMM:

1) Initial
2) Repeatable
3) Defined
4) Managed
5) Optimizing

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What are some requirements elicitation methods?

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A few techniques for requirements elicitation are

1) Prototyping
2) Requirements workshops
3) Interviews
4) Brainstorming
5) Observation

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What are some non-functional requirements?

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A few non-functional requirements are scalability, reliability and availability

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What is the iterative waterfall model?

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The iterative waterfall model provides feedback paths from every phase to its proceeding phases, which is the main difference from the classic waterfall method

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What is the software crisis?

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The software crisis occurred in 1968. It occurred due to the difficulty of writing code with rapid hardware and complicity.

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What is the IEEE definition of software engineering?
The IEEE definition of software engineering is a systematic plan, disciplined control and quantifiable measures.
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What are some motivations for selecting a development process?
A few motivations for selecting development processes are: ``` Change Cost Criticality Deadlines Quality Team ```
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What are the various types of criticality?
1) Life-Critical 2) Mission-Critical 3) Productivity-Critical 4) Non-Critical
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What is the spiral model?
The spiral model is used for handling risks. It is organized into four loops or phases 1) Objectives determination, Identify alternative solutions 2) Identify and resolve risks 3) Develop next version of product 4) Review and plan for the next phase
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What is SCRUM?
SCUM are project management techniques for agile: 1) Outline planning 2) Sprint Cycles 3) Project Closure
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What is a Sprint?
A Sprint is a 2-4 week process with daily meetings 1) Product Backlog 2) Select Backlog 3) Development 4) Presentation
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What are good characteristics of a good SRS?
A good SRS should be changeable, complete, consistent, correct, traceable, unambiguous and verifiable
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What is Verification?
Verification -> Are we building the product right?
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What is Validation?
Validation -> Are we building the right product?
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What is an SRS?
An SRS stands for software requirements specification. An SRS is a description of a software system to be developed. It lays out functional and non-functional requirements.
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What is the definition of a software system?
A software system are components working together for a goal
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What is software engineering concerned with?
Software engineering is concerned with processes, methods and tools
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What are development process motivations?
The development process motivations are Teamwork Deadlines Cost Criticality
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What are the generic phases of software development?
The 6 generic phases are: 1) Definition 2) Requirements 3) Design 4) Implementation 5) Validation 6) Deployment
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Describe requirements analysis
During requirements analysis you use matrices and checklist to check for Accuracy Ambiguity Consistency
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What are ways to statistically describe requirements specifications i.e., data models
To describe requirements specifications you can use BNF ERD Class Diagram
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What is requirements validation?
Requirements validation involves Review Prototype Test Cases
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Describe an aggregated relationship
An aggregated relationship "Has-a-shared"; denoted by an opened-diamond
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Describe a sequence diagram
A sequence diagram uses an actor interacting with a system
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Describe an activity diagram
An activity diagram shows behavior and functionality of concurrent processes
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Describe a state machine diagram
A state machine diagram shows transition between states
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What are the 3 data models?
The 3 data models are: Dictionary ERD Class
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What are the 4 functional models?
The 4 functional models are: Sequence Use-case Data flow Activity
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What are the 2 behavioral models?
The 2 behavioral models are: State Machines and Activity
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``` Actor Guestbook () | --|-- | /\____enter name___>[] | | | ___press button___>[]____name_____database ```
Sequence diagram
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Flowchart w/ forks, joins, and merges (diamonds); and swimlanes ``` | \/_ fork /\ / \ [] [] \ / \ /_ join | \/ …. ------------<> merge | ... ```
Activity diagram
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transition keyRemoved[doorClosed] / locked (start)----------------> [wait]----------------------------------------------------------->[locked] /\ | | keyTurned[KeyIn] /locked | | \/ |_____________________________________[opened]
State Machine Diagram
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What is contained within a SSE Requirements Document Project Identification and Definition (PID)?
Name Sponsors Needs Roles
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A complete functional requirement should have which elements?
Action Actor / trigger Objective
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A complete non-functional requirement should have which elements?
Characteristic | Constraint
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How can you tell if a requirement is traceable?
Does it have a name? | Who’s the source?
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How do you check a requirement for consistency?
Interaction matrix
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How do you trace a requirement?
Traceability matrix
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What are some hard-to-test requirements?
Usability | Availability
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What are the types of Scrum backlogs?
The types of scrum backlogs are 1) Product backlog → all user stories 2) Sprint backlog → scoped stories
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What is a singleton creational pattern for?
The singleton creational pattern is used for Centralized access
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Describe the Publish-Subscribe model?
The publish subscribe model is Event bus connected to message queue
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What’s the difference between big-M and little-M?
The Big-M Produces a system | The Little-M Delivers parts of a system
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Explain requirements analysis.
``` Requirements analysis is checking requirements with interaction matrices and checklist for: Accuracy Ambiguity Completeness Consistency ```
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What are the SOLID principles?
The SOLID principles are Single responsibility Open-closed APIs Dependency injection with abstract (static) classes
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What is a facade structural pattern for?
A facade structural pattern is used for Decoupling subsystems via interface
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How does one gather functional requirements?
Functional requirements are gathered through user stories and elicitation.
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Describe BNF
BNF stands for Backus–Naur form. | BNF is Meta-linguistic specification and notation
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Describe OCL.
``` OCL stands for object constraint language. It is a formal language to describe constraints on OOP. OCL Enhances class diagrams to show invariants OCL Enhances state machines to show guards ```
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Describe the broker model.
The broker model is a Distributed system with decoupled components
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What is a builder creational pattern for?
The builder creational pattern is used for Sequential creation of complex objects
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What is the observer behavioral pattern for?
The observable behavioral pattern is used to observe changes to a model

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