CS361 Winter 2013 Final Exam Review

Software Engineering IOregon State University

Comprehensive Exam

• The exam will cover the entire set of course material

• Contents will not be limited to this set of slides: please look at all of the slides

Materials

• You are allowed one side of one letter-sized piece of paper for notes during the exam

• Hand-written crib sheets only

Software Processes

• Waterfall vs. Spiral vs. Agile processes• Incremental vs. Iterative• When to use them

Requirements

• Functional requirements• Non-functional requirements• Eliciting requirements• Use cases and attributes of use cases• How do you write a good use case?– Main success scenario– Pay attention to good style and practices

Diagram Notations

• Know your diagrams– ER Diagrams– Dataflow diagrams– Message sequence charts– UML• Class diagrams

– Real-time UML• StateCharts• Structured class diagrams

Evaluating Requirements and Prototyping

• Attributes of good requirements• Approaches for evaluating requirements• Paper prototyping• Risk management• Types of prototypes and associated

advantages/disadvantages

Architecture

• Different types of decomposition• Patterns and their usefulness• Coupling and cohesion• Assignment of responsibilities• Usefulness of diagramming

Design Patterns

• What design patterns are• What is useful about design patterns• How to apply the various design patterns

Evaluating Architecture

• Methods to evaluate an architecture• Looking at an existing architecture and

identifying potential problems

Scheduling and Estimation

• How to estimate• How to schedule• What activity diagrams and Gantt charts are

Elements of Agile Development

• Principles of agile software development• How interactions with the customer are done• Key aspects of XP• Key aspects of SCRUM

Testing and Quality

• Definition of unit testing• Refactoring

Agile Collaboration

• How to collaborate and communicate with your client

• How to collaborate and communicate with your fellow developers

Professionalism

• How to behave ethically, morally, and legally• What engineering professionalism is