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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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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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What are the most important distinctions between services and software components?
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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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List four types of systems that may require software safety cases, explaining why safety cases are required.
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Suggest why the savings in cost from reusing existing software are not simply proportional to the size of the components that are reused.
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Why is it important that all component interactions are defined through ‘requires’ and ‘provides’ interfaces?
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Using examples, illustrate the different types of adaptor needed to support sequential composition, hierarchical composition and additive composition.
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Suggest how you would go about validating a password protection system for an application that you have developed. Explain the function of any tools that you think may be useful.
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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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why may testers not always know what a program is intended
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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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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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What is the common characteristic of all architectural styles that are geared to supporting software fault tolerance?
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You are responsible for the design of a communications switch that has to provide 24/7 availability, but which is not safety-critical. Giving reasons for your answer, suggest an architectural style that might be used for this system.
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It has been suggested that the control software for a radiation therapy machine, used to treat patients with cancer, should be implemented using N-version programming. Comment on whether or not you think this is a good suggestion.
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Give two reasons why different versions of a system based around software diversity may fail in a similar way.
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Explain why you should explicitly handle all exceptions in a system that is intended to have a high level of availability.
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Explain the important differences between application security engineering and infrastructure security engineering
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Explain why it is important to use diverse technologies to support distributed systems in situations where system availability is critical.
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What is social engineering? Why is it difficult to protect against it in large organizations?
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Explain how the complementary strategies of resistance, recognition and recovery may be used to enhance the survivability of a system.
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Identify six consumer products that are likely to be controlled by safetycritical software systems.
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Why is system integration a particularly critical part of the systems development process? Suggest three sociotechnical issues that may cause difficulties in the system integration process.
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Suggest six reasons why software dependability is important in most sociotechnical systems.
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Explain why legacy systems may be critical to the operation of a business.
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In the insulin pump system, the user has to change the needle and insulin supply at regular intervals and may also change the maximum single dose and the maximum daily dose that may be administered..
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What viewpoints should be considered when developing a requirements specification for the MHC-PMS? What are likely to be the most important cross-cutting concerns?
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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 process of project planning is iterative and why a plan must be continually reviewed during a software project.
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Reliability and safety are related but distinct dependability attributes. Describe the most important distinction between these attributes and explain why it is possible for a reliable system to be unsafe and vice versa.
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Giving reasons for your answer, suggest which dependability attributes are likely to be most critical for the following systems...
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