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What is a relay-controlled switch

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You have taken a job with a software user who has contracted your previous employer to develop a system for them.

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Write a set of non-functional requirements for the drone system, setting out its expected safety and response time.

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Suggest the most appropriate generic software process model for managing the development of a university accounting system to replace an existing manual system giving reasons.

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Giving reasons for your answer based on the type of system being developed, suggest the most appropriate generic software process model that might be used to develop a system that automatically controls the speed of a motor vehicle (cruise control).

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What does a model in a software engineering can be defined as an abstraction of a system that has no longer exists, an existing system and future system to be built means?

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What is logical data independence and why is it important?

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Why would you choose a database system instead of simply storing data in operating system files? When would it make sense not to use a database system?

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Suggest five possible problems that could arise if a company does not develop effective configuration management policies and processes.

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Explain why a high-quality software process should lead to high-quality software products. Discuss possible problems with this system of quality management.

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Under what circumstances might a company justifiably charge a much higher price for a software system than the software cost estimate plus a reasonable profit margin?

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Explain why the intangibility of software systems poses special problems for software project management.

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Using examples, explain why real-time systems usually have to be implemented using concurrent processes.

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Explain why managerial and operational independence are the key distinguishing characteristics of systems of systems when compared to other large, complex systems.

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Why professional software is not just the programs that are developed for a customer, but it's for organizations and other big businesses

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#COVID-19 Coronavirus Report as at March 25, 2020, 11:30 PM

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One approach that is commonly adopted to system testing is to test the system until the testing budget is exhausted and then deliver the system to customers. Discuss the ethics of this approach.

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Suggest why an organisation with a competitive, elitist culture would probably find it difficult to introduce program inspections as a V & V technique.

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explain how the number of known defects remaining in a program at the time of delivery affects product support

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why may testers not always know what a program is intended

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2. Performance and security may pose to be conflicting non-functional requirements when architecting software systems. Make an argument in support of this statement?

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Design an electronic form that may be used to record review comments and which could be used to electronically mail comments to reviewers.

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Assume you work for an organization that develops database products for individuals and small businesses. This organization is interested in quantifying its software development...

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Explain why program inspections are an effective technique for discovering errors in a program. What types of error are unlikely to be discovered through inspections?

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Explain why it is difficult to validate the relationships between internal product attributes, such as cyclomatic complexity and external attributes, such as maintainability.

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Describe 6 essential features that should be included in a tool to support change management processes.

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Imagine a situation where 2 developers are simultaneously modifying 3 different software components. What difficulties might arise when they try to merge the changes that they have made?

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Describe the difficulties that may arise when building a system from its components. What particular problems might occur when a system is built on a host computer for some target machine?

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With reference to system building, explain why you may sometimes have to maintain obsolete computers on which large software systems were developed.

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Describe five factors that should be taken into account by engineers during the process of building a release of a large software system.

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What are the important differences between the agile approach and the process maturity approach to software process improvement?

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Assume that the goal of process improvement in an organization is to increase the number of reusable components that are produced during development. Suggest three questions in the GQM paradigm that this might lead to.

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Describe three types of software process metric that may be collected as part of a process improvement process. Give one example of each type of metric

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Give two advantages and two disadvantages of the approach to process assessment and improvement that is embodied in the process improvement frameworks such as the CMMI.

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Under what circumstances would you recommend the use of the staged representation of the CMMI?

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You have been given the task of ‘selling’ formal specification techniques to a software development organization. Outline how you would go about explaining the advantages of formal specifications to sceptical, practising software engineers.

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Explain why transaction management is necessary in systems where user inputs can result in database changes.

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What is the function of the syntax tree component in a language processing system?

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Suggest situations where it is unwise or impossible to provide a consistent user interface.

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What factors have to be taken into account in the design of a menu-based interface for ‘walk-up’ systems such as bank ATMs? Write a critical commentary on the interface of an ATM that you use.

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