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Software Engineering → Requirement Engineering 4

Which diagram evolved from a desire to develop a procedural design representation that would not allow violation of the structured constructs?
the architect should have the technical requirements for the system and an articulated and prioritized list of qualitative properties
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Which of the following is not regression test case?
user’s model
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BPR stands for
evaluating deliverable to find errors
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Transformation of a system from one representational form to another is known as
independent test group
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Software Engineering → Software Design 4

A                      executes the loop task first, then tests a condition and repeats the task until the condition fails.
all of the mentioned
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Which testing is an integration testing approach that is commonly used when “shrink-wrapped” software products are being developed?
system image
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Source code translation is a part of which re-engineering technique?
white box testing
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Which of the following is not an objective of reverse engineering?
metrics
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Software Engineering → Coding Standards 4

Which of the following is not a characteristics of box diagram?
all of the mentioned
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In which testing level the focus is on customer usage?
all of the mentioned
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In reverse engineering process, what refers to the sophistication of the design information that can be extracted from the source code?
run chart
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6 IDENTIFICATION- RMMM PLAN-CASE TOOLS
function point sizing
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Software Engineering → Software Testing 4

The                 is represented as two processing boxes connected by an line (arrow) of control.
an architecture is foremost an abstraction of a system that suppresses details of the components that do not affect how they are used
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What are the problems with re-structuring?
all of the mentioned
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In reverse engineering, what refers to the level of detail that is provided at an abstraction level?
breadth test and depth test
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Which one is not a risk management activity?
three
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Software Engineering → Debugging 4

Which of the following term is best defined by the statement “Notation that can be input directly into a computer-based development system offers significant benefits.”?
all the system to be stable should posses an architecture
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Which of the following is not a module type?
data representation
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The core of reverse engineering is an activity called
structural testing
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What is the product of the probability of incurring a loss due to the risk and the potential magnitude of that loss?
putnam and myers
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Software Engineering → Software Maintenance 4

Which of the following is not a software testing generic characteristics?
show technical internals from the casual user
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Reverse engineering of data focuses on
all of the mentioned
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What have become de rigueur for computer-based products and systems of every type?
impractical but possible
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What threatens the quality and timeliness of the software to be produced?
all of the mentioned
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Software Engineering → Introduction to Software Engineering 4

ITG stands for
knowledgeable, frequent users
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Which of the following is not an example of a business process?
box diagram
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Forward engineering is also known as
all of the mentioned
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What threatens the viability of the software to be built?
external process
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Software Engineering → Software Development Models 3

By collecting                  during software testing, it is possible to develop meaningful guidelines to halt the testing process.
short-term memory
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Which of the following is a data problem?
repeat until
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Reverse engineering is the process of deriving the system design and specification from its
all of the mentioned
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Software Engineering → Waterfall Model 3

Test cases should uncover errors like
the design of the interface between two computers
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When does one decides to re-engineer a product?
providing a notation that translates actions and conditions
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Which of the following steps may not be used to define the existing data model as a precursor to re-engineering a new database model:
black box testing
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Software Engineering → Spiral Model 3

Which of the following errors should not be tested when error handling is evaluated?
all of the mentioned
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Which of the following is not a business goal of re-engineering ?
sequence
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Much of the information necessary to create a behavioral model can be obtained by observing the external manifestation of the existing
developer’s end
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Software Engineering → Agile Model 3

What is normally considered as an adjunct to the coding step
design model
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Which of these benefits can be achieved when software is restructured?
machine readability
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Extracting data items and objects, to get information on data flow, and to understand the existing data structures that have been implemented is sometimes called
different testing techniques are appropriate at different points in time
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