UNIT 5 - Unit wise Questions for Pune University (TE Computer)

Software Engineering

Unit wise questions

Unit 5 – Project Planning and Management

Topic – the project management spectrum

1.      Explain the role of people, product and process in project management.

  (May 2011 – 6 Marks, May 2013 – 8 Marks)

2.      Explain the term people and the product of management spectrum.

(May 2012 – 8 Marks)

Topic – People

3.      What are the categories of stakeholders? What are the characteristics of effective project manager? (May 2014 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Software Measurement

4.      What are the attributes of effective software metrics?  (May 2014 – 4 Marks)

5.      What is object oriented metric? (May 2014 – 6 Marks)

6.      Explain size oriented metric. What data should we collect to derive size oriented metric? (May 2014 – 4 Marks)

7.      Differentiate and explain size and function oriented metrics. (May 2011 – 6 Marks)

8.      Explain the FP based estimation technique. (May 2011 – 6 Marks)

9.      Explain metrics for object oriented projects. (Dec 2011 – 8 Marks)

10.  How do you calculate FP and how it Is used to in estimation of a software project? (May 2013 – 8 Marks)

11.  Explain the computation of function point (FP) metric for project estimation with an example. (Dec 2013 – 8 Marks)

12.  What is LOC based estimation? Explain with an example. (Dec 2013 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Metrics for Software Quality

13.  Explain in detail – defect removal efficiency. (May 2014 – 4 Marks)

14.  How do you measure software quality in terms of maintainability and integrity?

15.  (May 2014 – 6 Marks)

16.  Explain defect removal efficiency as a metric for project and process.

(Dec 2012 – 8 Marks)

17.  Explain any four quality measure of software.  (Dec 2013 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Decomposition

18.  What is software project estimation? How use cases are used in estimation?

(May 2011 – 6 Marks)

19.  What is LOC based estimation? Explain with a suitable example. (Dec 2011 – 8 Marks)

20.  What do you mean by software project estimation? Explain the process based estimation with an example. (Dec 2012 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Empirical Estimation Models

21.  Explain COCOMO II model.  (Dec 2011 – 8 Marks)

22.  Explain COCOMO model for project estimation. (Dec 2013 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Project Scheduling

23.   What is project scheduling? What are the basic principles of project scheduling?

(May 2012,  8 Marks)

Topic – Defining a task set for the software project

24.   What is a task network in project scheduling? Explain with an example. (May 2011, 8 Marks)

25.   What is a task network? How it is used in scheduling of software project?

(May 2011, Dec 2013 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Time Line Chart

26.   What is time line chart? How it is used in scheduling of a software project? (Dec 2012 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Tracking the schedule

27.   Discuss the techniques used in tracking the project schedule. (Dec 2012 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Earned Value Analysis

28.   Explain earned value analysis in project scheduling. (May 2011 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Risk Management

29.   What are the types of risks? Explain in brief. (May 2014 – 6 Marks)

Topic – Risk Identification

30.   Explain the risk identification and assessment process for a software project.

(May 2013, Dec 2013  -8 Marks)

Topic – Risk Projection

31.   How risk projection is carried out in risk table? (May 2011 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Risk Mitigation, Monitoring and Management (RMMM)

32.   What is risk mitigation, monitoring and management (RMMM)? Write a note on it?

(May 2012 – 10 Marks)

33.   Write short note on RMMM. (May 2014 – 5 Marks)

UNIT 4 - Unit wise Questions for Pune University (TE Computer)

Software Engineering

Unit wise questions

Unit 4 – Testing Principles

Topic – Fundamental Concept of Testing

1.      What is importance of testing practices?  What are principles of testing practices?   (May 2014 – 8 Marks)

Topic – Strategic Approach to Software Testing

2.      Explain the strategic approach to software testing. (Dec 2012, 6 Marks)

3.      What is software testing? Explain the software testing strategy for software development. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

4.      Differentiate between verification and validation. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

Topic – Test Strategies for Conventional Software

5.      What is system testing? Explain any two system testing strategies. (May 2011, 8 Marks)

6.      Explain the approaches in integration testing. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks)

7.      Differentiate between alpha and beta testing. (Dec 2011, 4 Marks)

8.      What is unit testing? Explain the unit testing process. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

9.      Explain any two system testing methods. (Dec 2012, 6 Marks)

10.  What do you mean by acceptance testing ? (May 2013, 4 Marks)

11.  What is need of stubs and drivers in software engineering? (Dec 2013, 4 Marks)

12.  Explain the integration testing approaches. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

13.  Explain in detail – (a) top-down integration testing (b) bottom-up integration testing. (May 2014, 8 Marks)

14.  Explain following testing types.

(a)   Validation testing     (b) acceptance testing   (c) smoke testing process. (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – Art of Debugging

15.  Compare the software testing with debugging. (Dec 2012, 4 Marks)

16.  Explain the debugging process. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

Topic – White Box Testing

17.  Explain the following – (a)condition testing   (b) loop testing.  (May 2011, 8 Marks)

18.  What is basis path testing? What is cyclomatic complexity? How it is determined for a flow graph? Illustrate with an example. (May 2012, 8 Marks)

19.  Basis path testing covers all statements in a program module. Justify with an example. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

20.  Explain the graph matrix and loop testing methods. (May 2013, 8 Marks)

21.  What is cyclomatic complexity? How it is determined for a flow graph? Illustrate with example. (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – Black Box Testing

22.  Explain equivalence partitioning testing. ( Dec 2011, 6 Marks)

23.  Differentiate between white box testing and black box testing. (Dec 2012, 4 Marks)

Topic – Object Oriented Test Strategies

24.  Explain OO testing. (May 2012, 3 Marks)

25.  How OO testing differs from conventional testing strategies? (May 2013, 6 Marks)

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Topic – User Interface Analysis and Design

23.  Explain the user interface design process. (May 2011, 6 Marks)

24.  Explain the user interface design issues. (May 2011, 6 Marks)

25.  Highlight the principles specific to the design of a web application interface. (May 2012, 5 Marks)

26.  Explain the user interface design steps. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

27.  Explain the user interface design process. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

UNIT 3 - Unit wise Questions for Pune University (TE Computer)

Software Engineering

Unit wise questions

Unit 3 – Design Methods and Models

Topic – Concept of Design

1.      Explain the following design concepts

(a) modularity   (b) architecture.   (May 2011 – 6 Marks)

2.      What do you understand by refactoring? Give the importance of refactoring in improving the quality of software. (Dec 2011, 6 Marks)

3.      What are the characteristics of a well formed design class? (Dec 2012, 6 Marks)

4.      Differentiate between abstraction and refinement. (Dec 2012, 4 Marks )

5.      Explain the following design concepts

(a)   Refinement  (b) Modularity  (c) Architecture (May 2013, 8 Marks)

Topic – Design Quality

6.      Explain the quality attributes considered in software Design. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

7.      What are the design quality guidelines? (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – Design Principles, Design Classes

8.      State and explain any 4 design principles. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

9.      Explain the types of design classes. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

Topic – Design Model and Elements

10.  Describe the design model with a neat diagram and give the traceability of each layer of the design model to analysis model. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks)

11.  What are the deployment levels design elements? (Dec 2011, 4 Marks)

12.  Explain the elements of design model. (May 2013, 8 Marks)

13.  What are the elements of data design? What are the guidelines for the data design? (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – Software Architecture

14.  Explain software architecture as a concept of software design. (May 2012, 4 Marks)

Topic – Architectural Styles and Patterns

15.  Explain data centered and layered architectures with neat diagrams. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks)

16.  Explain any 3 architecture styles. (May 2012, 6 Marks)

17.  Explain in brief – Call and Return Architecture. (May 2012, 4 Marks)

Topic – Architectural Design

18.  What do you mean by software architecture? Explain the system context diagram elements with an example. ( May 2011, 6 Marks)

19.  What do you mean by archetypes? (Dec 2011, 4 Marks)

Topic – User Interface Design

20.  What is the necessity of the good user interface? What are the rules to keep in mind while designing the user interface? (May 2012, 6 Marks)

21.  What are the design principles for reducing the user’s memory load in user interface design? (Dec 2012, 6 Marks)

22.  What are the interface design principles and guidelines? (May 2014, 8 Marks)

Topic – User Interface Analysis and Design

23.  Explain the user interface design process. (May 2011, 6 Marks)

24.  Explain the user interface design issues. (May 2011, 6 Marks)

25.  Highlight the principles specific to the design of a web application interface. (May 2012, 5 Marks)

26.  Explain the user interface design steps. (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

27.  Explain the user interface design process. (Dec 2013, 6 Marks)

UNIT 2 - Unit wise Questions for Pune University (TE Computer)

Software Engineering

Unit wise questions

Unit 2 – Requirements Engineering

Topic – requirements engineering

1.      Explain elements of requirements model.      (May 2013 – 8 Marks)

2.      Explain in detail, requirement engineering task (Dec 2013, May 2014, 8 Marks)

3.      What are the characteristics that requirement must meet? (May 2014, 6 Marks)

4.      Draw and explain the traceability table for requirement management (May 2014, 6 Marks )

Topic – initiating requirements engineering process

5.      What are requirement engineering tasks? Explain the elicitation process using quality function deployment. (May 2011, 8 Marks )

6.      Explain in brief the collaborative requirement gathering activity. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks )

7.      For “banking system”, make your assumptions about the scope of the system, identify 4 use cases and depict them in a diagram. (May 2012, 4 Marks )

8.      State and explain the methods for eliciting requirements. (May 2012, 8 Marks )

9.      What are the work products of elicitation? (May 2013, 4 Marks )

Topic – Developing Use Cases

10.  How are cases can be used to model the requirements? Write an use case for “login” with a template and diagram. (May 2011, 8 Marks)

11.  How use cases are used in modeling requirements? (May 2013, 6 Marks)

Topic – Building Requirement Analysis Model

12.  Explain the importance of modeling practices. Explain the principles of analysis modeling. (May 2012, 8 Marks)

Topic – Elements of Analysis Model

13.  Explain the analysis model elements with models created in each. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

Topic – Data Modeling

14.  Explain the following data modeling concepts – (a) data object  (b) relationship (c) cardinality and modality (May 2012, 5 Marks)

Topic – Scenario Based Modeling

15.  Give the actors, use cases and use case diagram for “online mobile order and purchase system”. Write the scope of the system. (Dec 2013, 8 Marks)

16.  Create the swim lane diagram for monitoring of sensor in “a safe home security system” from control panel. (May 2013, 8 Marks)

17.  Explain the scenario based elements of analysis model in detail. (May 2014, Dec 2011,12, 8 Marks)

Topic – Class Based Modeling

18.  Write a CRC for the class “Email System User”. (May 2013, 4 Marks)

19.  What do you mean by CRC? Write the steps for identifying analysis classes using CRC modeling. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks)

Topic – Flow Oriented Modeling

20.  Draw the data flow diagram up to level , for “a temperature monitoring system” in an Intensive Care Unit of a hospital. (Dec 2011, 8 Marks).

21.  Draw and explain context level, level 1 and level 2 DFD for college gathering. (May 2012, 8 Marks).

22.  Draw a DFD for “a vehicle renting system”. (May 2012, 5 Marks)

23.  What do you mean by flow modeling? Explain data flow modeling with an example. (May 2011, Dec 2012, 8 Marks).

24.  What is significance of data flow modeling? Create level 1 DFD for an ATM system (Dec 2012, 8 Marks)

Topic – Software Requirement Specifications

25.  Write an SRS for any automation System of your choice with sutaible requirements. (May 2012, 4 Marks)