Software Engineering · End Term · Sep 2024 · FN

In which of the following types of testing is the fully integrated system tested by a selected group of customers?

Which deployment strategy keeps all the different versions of the production environment live, allowing users to freely choose the version they prefer?

Which of the following is the major drawback of continuous integration?

Suppose you want to deploy a web application. Your main concern is the highest performance of the web application, and you also want full control of the hardware and software on the server. Which of the following hosting options will be most suitable for you?

Which of the following strategies uses tools like Brotil and Gzip to improve the performance of web applications?

A software organization wants to reuse the knowledge of one project in another project, and it is possible if the knowledge is documented and archived properly. Which kind of tools can be used by the organization?

What are the desired characteristics of a good software design?

Which of the software metrics decides the quality of the code based on the number of lines of the source code?

Consider debugging a program by controlling its execution flow in a debugger, allowing you to go through the code line by line, inspect variables, and understand the program's behavior in detail. What type of debugging technique is used in this case?

In a weather app, users (clients) enter their location to get weather forecasts. The user sends a request to a central system, which processes the request, fetches the weather data from external APIs or databases, and then sends the forecast back to the user. Which type of architecture is used in this weather application?

What are the risks related to budget, schedule, and staffing commonly known as?

In the Scrum framework, which role is responsible for monitoring all the activities of a sprint and ensuring their successful completion?

A company developing electronic health records (EHR) software aims to enhance the user interface. To do so, they observe doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in a hospital environment to see how they interact with the current system. They focus on identifying challenges, such as delays in entering patient data and difficulties in accessing medical histories. Identify the type of requirement collection technique used in the given scenario.

Which of the SMART characteristics suggest stopping the implementation of a feature once the time budget is exceeded?

A software company is developing an inventory management system for a pharmaceutical distributor. The system allows its clients (client classes) to generate and print invoices for orders, which involves several steps:

Each of these steps requires calling various methods from different classes, which belong to different packages, and must be executed in a very specific sequence. This process became too complex for the developers to handle directly in the main system. To simplify the interaction, the development team created a new class that provides a unified interface to manage these tasks. This class orchestrates calls to the underlying methods from various classes and packages, enabling the client class to perform all invoice generation related tasks with a single method call. Which design pattern does this approach represent?

Suppose an employee portal lets the HR manager register employee details. The registration form provides validation for each field (e.g., email format, password strength, mandatory fields). It also disables the 'Submit' button until all required fields are correctly filled out. Before submitting the form, a confirmation dialog is displayed to let users verify their inputs. Which of the following heuristics of UI evaluation is fulfilled in this case?

An event planning app allows users to organize schedules, send invites, and track RSVPs. However, the app uses a very unique set of icons and labels for its features, which are hard to recall for users who don’t use the app frequently. Users often struggle to access key features or complete tasks like editing guest lists or viewing event details after not using the app for a while. What kind of usability goal is missing from the mobile app?

Which of the following is/are the primary task/s of a project manager in a software organization?

Which of the following statements regarding the Flask framework are correct?

What is/are the main activities in the maintenance phase of the software engineering process?

Which of the following is/are true about designing test cases for whitebox testing?

A small e-commerce company decides to develop a website for selling handmade crafts. The project involves basic functionalities such as product listings, a shopping cart, order processing, and a payment gateway. The requirements are well understood, and the development team is small and comprises experienced developers. The values for the constants in the COCOMO model for the different types of projects are as follows:

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Considering that the source code is 44,000 lines, what is the initial estimated effort for the project?

A small e-commerce company decides to develop a website for selling handmade crafts. The project involves basic functionalities such as product listings, a shopping cart, order processing, and a payment gateway. The requirements are well understood, and the development team is small and comprises experienced developers. The values for the constants in the COCOMO model for the different types of projects are as follows:

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Considering the average salary of every developer is Rs. 50,000/- per month, what is the initial estimated cost of the project?