Aero 440 Midterm

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Chapter 1

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Introduction to Software Engineering

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Common Causes of Software Failures

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-Incomplete or changing requirements
-Lack of customer or user involvement
- lack of resources
-Unrealistic
-Lack of management support or management
- lack of Planning
-Team not properly trained

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Software Engineering.

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An engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production.

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Difference Between Software engineering (SE) and computer science (CS).

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CS is concerned with theory and fundamentals; SE is concerned with the practicalities of developing and delivering useful software.

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Difference between software engineering (SE) and system engineering (sys E).

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Sys E: Concerned with all aspects of systems development including hardware, software and process engineering.

SE: part of this process concerned with developing the software.

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Software Process.

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Set of Activities whose goal is the development or evaluation of software.

1: Specification, 2: Development, 3:Validation, 4: Evolution

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Software Process models.

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V-cycle
Waterfall
Spiral
Iterative development
Component-based software engineering

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Software Engineering methods.

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Model Descriptions: Object models such as UML
Rules: Constraints applied to system models
Recommendations: Advice on good design practice
Process Guidance: What activities to follow.

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What is Case? Upper and Lower Case?

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Case: Intended to provide automated support for software process activities.
Upper: Support early process (requirements & design)
Lower: (Programming,debugging and testing)

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Attributes of a good software.

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Maintainability: must evolve to meet changing needs.
Dependability:Must be trustworthy.
Efficiency: Not make wasteful use of system resources.
Acceptability: Must be accepted by the users for which
it was designed.

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Key Challenges facing software engineering.

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Heterogeneity: Cope with heterogeneous platforms and execution environments.
Delivery: Techniques that lead to faster delivery of software.
Trust: Techniques that show that software can be trusted by users.

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Issues of Professional reponsibility

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Confidentiality
Competence
Intellectual Property Rights
Computer Misuse
Lifelong Learning

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Code of Ethics

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1: Public Interest in mind.
2: Best interest of clients, employer and public interest.
3: Highest professional standard product.
4: Integrity and independence in judgement.
5: An ethical approach to management (leaders)
6: Advance the integrity and reputation of profession.
7: Fair and supportive to their colleagues.
8: Lifelong learning.