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This Tutorial is based on questions from the book Software Engineering 10 by Ian Sommerville and is based on selected material covered in chapters 8 and 9. Use the lecture slides as a guide to what was covered. You will also need to ensure that you have read through the relevant parts of chapters 8 and 9.
Week 9 Tutorial
Testing and Evolution
- 1. What should be the principal concerns of system testing?
- 2. Briefly summarize the test-driven development process.
- 3. What is scenario testing?
- 4. What is stress testing and why is it useful?
- 5. Why is software evolution important.
- 6. What are the stages in the system evolution process and what triggers that process?
- 7. Why might it sometimes be necessary to bypass the normal change management system and make urgent changes to a system?
- 8. What are the three different types of software maintenance and how is effort distributed across these maintenance types?
- 9. What factors should be assessed to understand the relationship between a system and its environment?
- 10 What are the principal systems re-engineering activities?
- 11 What are the strategic options for legacy system evolution?
- 12 List four important factors used to assess applications for evolution.
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Lab Exercise: Week 9
- This week, Please work on your project.