CSE5270 Software Engineering Final Exam
Study Guide

• Understand the difference between S/W engineering and Computer Science and System Engineering.
• Why must S/W Engineers be concerned about ethics and morals?
• Know your software development process models. Study the table posted and know strengths and weaknesses of each model.
• What are the phases of the S/W engineering process? What are relative costs of each phase? What are documents to be generated during each phase? What are interdependencies between documents and phases?
• What are the principles and phases of the rapid prototyping approach to the S/W lifecycle ?
• What are the principles and phases of the waterfall model for the S/E lifecycle?
• Identify the benefits of reuse. Why is reuse not commonly practiced.
• Do object-oriented principles facilitate reuse?
• Techniques for object-oriented design, including the class modeling, dynamic modeling, functional modeling, and CRC diagrams. What is the purpose of each technique, and what are their interrelationships?
• OO principles including inheritance, encapsulation, abstraction, polymorphism, and late binding.
• Identify the stages in the testing process. What occurs in each stage?
• Understand the difference between milestones and deliverables.
• Understand the process of risk management. Be able to identify 5-7 possible software risks.
• Why is are feasibility studies important? What are the process activities that occur during requirements elicitation and analysis?
• What are Use-cases?
• Why is requirements validation important?
• Understand requirements change management and its importance in S/W Engineering.
• Under what circumstances would you recommend a prototyping activity.
• Why are reference architectures important? Provide an example.
• Why is it important to design a system architecture before the specifications are written?
• Identify the event-driven models covered in your text book. Understand the behavior of each.
• List and explain lessons learned experienced in your class project.
• Identify the 3 classes of application frameworks. What is the importance of these frameworks.
• Identify the problems with COTS reuse.
• What are design patterns? Why are they important in S/W Design.
  
  Note: Other questions will be extracted from your mid-term exam. Study your mid-term....