Computer Science 340

Exam 3 Review

The exam will be essay and short questions. Be able to

• Explain what agile methods are and how sofware engineering using aglile methods differs from more traditional methods.
• Explain what prototypes are and how they may be used in the software development process.
• Discuss rapid development environments: the tools provided by some database systems, the use of scripts, and development environments such as the .NET environment.
• Specify and describe the various approaches to reuse, their advantages and disadvantages, and how reuse can be incorporated in the development process.
• Explain what components are, how they differ from objects and applications, and how software engineering can be based on component reuse.
• Explain what verification and validation are and how they differ.  Be able to explain what documents are tested against in each.
• Discuss w hat inspections are, where they can be used, and how they can be done.  What sort of benefits are there to inspections?
• Explain how testing can be incorporated into the software development process (in particular, the 'V' diagram for software development with testing).
• Explain what static tools are and how they may be used.
• Explain what defect testing is, providing
• The difference between "black box" and "clear box" testing
• Testing heuristics
• How integration testing may be done
• The difference between function and object-oriented testing, and how testing can be done in an object-oriented environment.

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