Software Engineering Challenges

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Interaction diagram

The dynamic behavior of the system and how it responds to events

<p>To define the boundary between the system and its environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Context bubble, external entities, and data flows</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Structural diagram</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To represent a discrete task that involves interaction with an external system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They must be accurate and complete</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identifying software requirements, prioritizing them for development, and reviewing the backlog to ensure it meets their needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To share information, describe progress since the last sprint, problems that have risen, and what is planned for the day.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A state of software that is finished and no further work is needed to incorporate into the final work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Customers have limited time, and may be reluctant to get involved in the testing process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It keeps the code simple, improves understandability, and makes further changes easier to make.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It develops collective ownership of the software, serves as an informal review process, and encourages refactoring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To immediately test code changes when added to a larger codebase, and ensure that all unit tests pass.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of product backlog effort that a team can cover in a single sprint.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing techniques that can cope with increasing diversity of platforms and execution environments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing software that can be trusted by its users.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Software engineers should not only uphold the law but also follow a set of principles that are morally correct.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Engineers should not publicize information of their employers/clients, regardless of agreement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Engineers should only accept work that is within their range of skill and competence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Engineers should be able to protect their employers/clients' intellectual property and be aware of local laws surrounding IP.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Engineers should not use their skills to misuse other people's computers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Graphics programs, CAD software.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agile development is designed for small co-located teams, making it less suitable for large worldwide teams.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Verification is a static process ensuring that documents and code meet the conditions of the starting phase, while validation is a dynamic process ensuring that the customer's real requirements are met.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Static testing alone cannot check conformance with a customer's real requirements and cannot check non-functional requirements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scaling up is adapting agile methods for large systems that cannot be developed by a small team.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A plan-driven approach is preferred when it is important to have a very detailed specification before moving to implementation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author walks through the code and explains what each piece does.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agile development lacks product documentation, relying on the development team's knowledge of what needs to be done.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scaling out is introducing agile methods around a large organisation with years of software development experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To identify flaws from a security point of view, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, authorization, and non-repudiation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Portability testing is determining the difficulty of transferring software from one hardware/software/other to another efficiently and effectively. The two strategies for portability testing are transferring an installed software from one computer to another and building executable files to run the software on different platforms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Functional testing focuses on validating the behavior of the application, while non-functional testing focuses on validating the performance of the application.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To validate the software's performance, such as how fast the dashboard loads.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Manual testing is executed by manual testing, while automated testing is hard to do manually.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The focus area of functional testing is based on customer requirements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unit testing and smoke testing are examples of functional testing, which validate the behavior of the application.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dashboard should load in 2 seconds.</p> Signup and view all the answers