EECS 481 Final Flashcards

An exceptional situation at run time.

Any characteristic of a product which hinders its usability for its intended purpose.

Provides information about a defect.

<p>Potential change to the intended purpose (requirements) of software.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Either a bug report or a feature request.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Consists of a number of possible stages and actions, including reporting, confirmation, triage, assignment, resolution, and verification.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The degree of impact that a defect has on the development or operation of a component or system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indicates the importance or urgency of fixing a defect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Associates a developer with the responsibility of addressing a defect report.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indicates the result of the most recent attempt to address it; resolved need not mean fixed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Helps to detect the source of a program error by single-stepping through the program and inspecting variable values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The task of identifying source code regions implicated in a bug.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An asynchronous notification sent to a process about an event.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A procedure that will be executed when the signal occurs; vulnerable to race conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Like a breakpoint, but it stops execution after any instruction changes the value at location L.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses dynamic analysis to rank suspicious statements implicated in a fault by comparing the statements covered on failing tests to the statements covered on passing tests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A performance analysis tool that measures the frequency and duration of function calls as a program runs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Computes the average call times for functions but does not break times down based on context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Computes call times for functions and also the call chains involved.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An automated debugging approach that finds a one-minimal interesting subset of a given set.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A change in the program configuration or state that may lead to alternative observations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Articulate the relationship and interface between a desired system and its environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relationships between monitored and controlled variables.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relationships between inputs and outputs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes the environment (as-is).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describes the environment with the machine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describe what the machine should do.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Design criteria to help choose between alternative implementations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>General intention (ease of use, high security).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement using some measure that can be objectively tested.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How to capture relevant details about a system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Once captured, how do we express it most effectively.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Problem/world feature not stated by any requirements document item.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requirements document items stating a problem/world feature in an incompatible way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requirements document item not clearly stating a problem/world feature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requirements document item allowing a problem/world feature to be interpreted in different ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of identifying system requirements through communication with stakeholders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Checks the correctness of requirements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Checks the correctness of software.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Includes both the likelihood and the consequence of failure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any person or group who will be affected by the system, directly or indirectly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves learning about the system domain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Same concept named differently in different statements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Same name for different concepts in different statements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Same concept structured differently in different statements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Statements are not satisfiable together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Statements are not satisfiable together under some boundary condition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We recursively decompose a system, from the highest level of abstraction (stakeholder requirements) into lower-level subsystems and implementation choices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identified relationships between requirements and implementations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A top-down technique to model, reason about, and analyze risk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mathematical process that describes real-world events and the relationships between factors responsible for them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Evaluates alternative solutions to answer the question 'What is going on?' and suggests what ought to be done according to an assumption or standard.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One object relies on another object for some subset of its functionality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses inheritance and an overridable method.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses an interface and polymorphism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prescribes that software designers should define formal, precise, and verifiable interface specifications for components.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A variation of modular programming or service-oriented architecture focusing on separation of concerns and interface design.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ease design by identifying simple ways to realize relationships among entities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A structural design pattern that converts the interface of a class into another interface clients expect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allows clients to treat individual objects and groups of objects uniformly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Provides a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Avoid complexity by controlling object creation to ensure objects are created suitably for the situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You declare the class's normal constructors to be private or protected and make a public static creation method.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A creational design pattern that uses factory methods to create objects without revealing the exact subclass created.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Restricts the instantiation of a class to exactly one logical instance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Support common communication patterns among objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allows dependent objects to be notified automatically when the state of a subject changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves a method in a superclass that operates in terms of high-level steps.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involves turning a research idea into an effective product that is actually used.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blood-oxygen level dependent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to cognitive processes in which experience and expectation guide understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Knowledge structures representing semantic and syntactic software patterns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to cognitive processes in which meaning is obtained from individual statements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Holds elements in working memory and then abstracts those pieces of information into higher-order concepts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The phenomenon where lower brain activation indicates that a cognitive process is more efficient.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Every step in a process has the potential for failure, to varying degrees.</p> Signup and view all the answers