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Software engineering is essential for who? (5 entities)

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  • Government
  • Society
  • National Business
  • International Business
  • Institutions
    (Pg 18)
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Software failures are because of what 2 factors?

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  • Increasing System Complexity
  • Failure to use software engineering methods
    (pg 18)
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True or False? Software engineering is intended to support individual programming rather than professional development?

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FALSE

pg. 19

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What is software?

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Computers programs and associated documentation.

Pg. 20

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Who may software products be developed for?

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A particular person or general market. (pg. 20)

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What are the attributes of good software engineering?

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  • Functionality
  • Performance
  • Maintainable
  • Dependable
  • Usable
    (pg. 20)
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What are the fundamental software engineering activities?

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-Specification
- Development
-Validation
- Evolution
(pg 20)

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What is the difference between software engineering and computer science?

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Computer Science focuses on theory where software engineering focuses on developing and doing.
(pg 20)

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What is the difference between software engineering and system engineering?

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System Engineering is concerned with all aspects of system from hardware, software and processes. Software engineering is a discipline in that.
(pg 20)

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What are the key challenges facing software engineering?

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  • Increased diversity
  • Increased demands for reduced delivery time
  • trustworthy software
    (pg 20)
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What are the costs of software engineering?

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60% Development
40% testing
(pg 20)

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What are the best software engineering techniques and methods?

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  • Games you a series of prototypes
  • Critical system controls require complete and analyzable specification
    (pg 20)
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What differences has the Internet made to software engineering?

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-Created the development of apps
- Led to massive, highly distributed, service based systems
(pg 20)

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What are 2 types of software products?

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  • Generic products
  • Customized (bestoke) products
    (pg 20-21)
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Describe generic products?

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Products made available for the general public. Examples include apps, word processors.
(pg 21)

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Describe Customized products?

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Products made for individual customers with specific design specifications.

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What is a critical distinction between generic and customized products?

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  • Generic products, the company DESIGNING the product control the specification.
  • Customized products, the company BUYING the pdoruct control the specification.
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What does ERP stand for?

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Enterprise Resource Planning.(pg 21)

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What is Software Engineering?

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Engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production from the early stages of system specification through maintaining the system after it has gone into use.

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Describe Product characteristics- Acceptability

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Product must be understandable, usable, and compatible with other systems

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Describe Product characteristics- Dependability and security

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  • Software has to be secure so that malicious users cannot access or damage the system.
  • Software dependability includes:
    - reliability
    - security
    - safety
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Describe Product characteristics- Efficiency

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  • ## Dont make wasteful use of system resources such as memory and processor cycles.
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Describe Product characteristics- Maintainability

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  • Software written in such a way that it can evolve to meet the changing needs of customers.
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The systematic approach that is used in software engineering is sometimes called _____ ?

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A software process

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What is a software process?
A sequence of activities that leads to the production of a software product.
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What are the 4 fundamental activities of the software processes?
- Specification - Development - Validation - Evolution
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What are the 4 issue related aspects that affect softwares?
- Heterogeneity: working across different platforms - Business and social change- evolve to match business and social change - Security and trust: ensuring software is safe - Scale - work across different scales, from small embedded systems to large internet, cloud based systems. (pg 24)
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Who proposed that there can be a fundamental meta-process that can be instantiated to create different kinds of process?
SEMET initiative
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What are the 8 types of software applications?
- Stand-alone applications- - Interactive transaction-based applications - Embedded controls applications - Batch Processing - Entertainment - Systems for modeling and simulation - Data collection and analysis - Systems of Systems -
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Which of the 8 software applications types run on a personal computer or mobile device?
- Stand-alone application
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Which of the 8 software applications types execute on a remote computer and that are accessed by users from their own computers, phones, or tablets?
Interactive transaction-based applications
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True of False? Interactive transaction-based applications includes business systems?
TRUE | pg 25
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Which of the 8 software applications types control and manage hardware devices?
- Embedded control systems | pg 25
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Which of the 8 software applications types are designed to pro- cess data in large batches?
- Batch processing systems | pg 25
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Which of the 8 software applications types are for personal use that are intended to entertain the user?
- Entertainment systems | pg 25
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Which of the 8 software applications types are developed by scientists and engineers to model physical processes or situations, which include many separate, interacting objects?
-Systems for modeling and simulation | pg 25
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Which of the 8 software applications types are systems that collect data from their environment and send that data to other systems for processing?
- Data collection and analysis systems | pg 25
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Which of the 8 software applications types are composed of a number of other software systems?
- Systems of Systems | pg 25
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Which processing systems are often used in conjunction with web-based transaction systems?
Batch processing systems. | pg 26
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What are the 4 engineering fundamentals that apply to all types of software systems?
- (Process): Developed using a understood and easily managed development process. - (Dependability): Dependability and performance is a must. - (Requirements/Management): Understand and manage the specifications. - (Resources) Effectively use existing resources
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What are 4 affects the internet had on software engineering?
- Reusing software is common - Systems are developed and delivered incrementally - Software may be implemented using service-oriented engineering (stand alone web services) - AJAX and HTML5
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What are the 4 steps of professional responsibility?
- Confidentiality: Only those who need to know, know. - Competence: Do not accept duties over your head - Intellectual Property Rights: Know local laws such as patents and copyright - Misuse: Do not commit harmful crimes to damage other computers
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What is an embedded system?
- a system where the software controls some hardware device and is embedded in that device. Ex. Software used to control insulin pumps for diabetics.
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What is an Information System?
manage and provide access to a database of information. | Ex. Medical Records System
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What is an sensor-based data collection system ?
collect and process data from a set of sensors. | Ex. Wilderness Weather Station
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What is a support environment?
used to support some kind of activity. | Ex. Digital Learning Environment
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What are integrated services?
services that offer an API and that can be accessed by other services through that API. Ex. Authentication Service
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What are independent services?
- services that are simply accessed through a browser interface - operate independently of other services
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