Cse 219 Final

Front 1

What term best describes “a description of a problem and its solution that can apply to many similar programming situations”.

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Design Pattern

Front 2

Instance variables are stored inside what segment of memory?

Back 2

Heap

Front 3

Which of the following Java technologies can adversely affect performance if overused in ones program?

A) Exception handling
B) Inheritance
C) Method calling
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Back 3

All of the above

Front 4

Question 4
The Software Development LifeCycle is drawn below. Which step may involve using the JUnit toolkit?

Back 4

5

Front 5

Which step involves making UML Use Case diagrams?

Back 5

1

Front 6

Which involves making UML Sequence diagrams?

Back 6

2

Front 7

Back 7

18

Front 8

Back 8

6

Front 9

At what stage is redesigning a software system the least expensive?

Back 9

Design Review Stage

Front 10

Which of the following could be described as input to a method?
A) Instance Variables
B) Method Arguments
C) Static Variables
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Back 10

All of the above

Front 11

Which of the following design patterns does not use inheritance as part of its implementation?

Back 11

Singleton

Front 12

What is the software engineering term used to describe the breaking down of a problem into smaller, more manageable problems, until smaller solutions can easily be solved?

Back 12

Decomposition

Front 13

Using black-box testing techniques on a method, one would create test cases that test every path through what?

Back 13

The method’s specification (it’s documentation)

Front 14

When using JUnit, one typically calls static methods in what class to compare actual and expected values?

Back 14

Assert

Front 15

Which of the following can an interface have?

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Static final constant

Front 16

Which of the following best describes the objective of a single UML Use Case Diagram?

Back 16

List a sequence of steps a user might take in order to complete an action

Front 17

Which of the following can an abstract class not have?

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Abstract variable

Front 18

A class that has too many unrelated obligations, increasing its complexity and heft could be described using which anti-pattern?

Back 18

Blob

Front 19

What term is used to describe checking out a project into an isolated environment to do experimental work without threat of permanently affecting the original project?

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Sandboxing

Front 20

On the first day of lecture we said the Software Development Lifecycle is slight different for a large project. The first 8 steps of this modified lifecycle are listed below. What is step #6?

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Integration

Front 21

What term is used to describe the process of monitoring and updating deployed software?

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Maintenance

Front 22

We discussed how developers use a term to describe writing code without testing while you go, but rather, waiting until large pieces are written before performing any testing. What is this term called?

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Design to Fail

Front 23

What design pattern works by dynamically changing the actual type of an instance variable as needed.

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State

Front 24

This semester I encouraged using “narrow interfaces” in designing connections between modules. Which design pattern, typically used as an alternative to static methods, uses a programming style that can easily lead to wide interfaces between classes and modules?

Back 24

Singleton

Front 25

What term best describes the process of testing a previously working system after a series of changes?

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Regression Testing

Front 26

Which of the following stages of software development is often performed by someone with little to no programming experience?
A) Beta Testing
B) Requirements Analysis
C) System Testing
D) All of the above
E) None of the above – They all require programming experience

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All of the above

Front 27

In lecture and in a HW description, I referenced the hilarious Stonehenge scene from the film This is Spinal Tap. What is the lesson we learned from this scene?

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A bad design will result in a bad implementation

Front 28

This semester I wanted to brainwash you using three mantras: First Define the Problem, Always Provide Feedback, and:

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Design, then Code

Front 29

In lecture we stressed how amazing it is that code written by a Java API developer 10 years ago is able to invoke methods we write today. What is the primary reason why this is possible?

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Polymorphism

Front 30

What could be the actual type of an argument sent to the Container class’ setLayoutManager method?

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FlowLayout

Front 31

Which design pattern, which we discussed, links a number of different components (buttons, menu items, etc.) to a single event handler by associating each event source with a common textual abstraction?

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Command Pattern

Front 32

What design pattern might have a class with static methods that would each construct a different actual type of object that would be returned as an apparent type of some common family type?

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Factory Pattern

Front 33

What must be true of a class in order to use the Flyweight Pattern to manage its objects?

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It cannot be mutable

Front 34

Which of the following classes would make a good candidate for the Flyweight Pattern?

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Color

Front 35

This semester we learned that Java is a strongly typed object oriented language with automatic memory management system. What other high-level language have we pointed out has all of these properties in common with Java?

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C#

Front 36

Algorithm expert Donald Knuth famously said that premature ______________ is the root of all evil.

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Optimization

Front 37

What types of exceptions are typically thrown as a result of programmer error?

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Unchecked Exceptions

Front 38

What technology, distributed under the Apache license, is fast becoming the industry standard for Version Control Systems?

Back 38

Subversion

Front 39

What data can the HProf tool provide to the developer?

Back 39

which line of code is the source of a runtime error

Front 40

What term is used to describe the situation when a software project falls behind schedule?

Back 40

Slippage

Front 41

What is the technical term used to describe a code block or method that uses a disproportionate amount CPU cycles or memory?

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Hot Spot

Front 42

Whether you were aware of it it or not, everyone used an Optimizer tool this semester. What tool is that?

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Java Compiler

Front 43

What would be the best example of a class that violates the principle of Coherence of Types?

Back 43

one that stores information about a user, a table, and a frame

Front 44

What implementation approach did we use in coding HWs 5 & 6?

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Top-Down Approach

Front 45

In lecture we discussed how a certain type of program is so critical that the developers for that program go to great pains to verify that it works properly, including mathematically proving much of the code does as intended. What type of program was this?

Back 45

Compiler