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25-Comp-A6 Software Engineering: December 2014

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  1. Question 1 The Software Design Process
  2. Question 2 Object-Oriented Software Design
  3. Question 3 Software Design
  4. Question 4 Embedded Software
  5. Question 5 Software Testing
  6. Question 6 Configuration Management
  7. Question 7 Critical Software Development
  8. Question 8 Software Reliability
  9. Question 9 Component-Based Software
  10. Question 10 Software Validation

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National Exams — December 2014 — 98-Comp-A6 Software Engineering. Three-hour, closed-book exam, no calculator permitted. Format: ten questions, candidates answer any six (all questions equal weight — each question carries 20 marks, so the paper is marked out of 120; only the first six questions as they appear in the answer book are marked). All ten questions are solved below for completeness.

Reference texts: Sommerville, Software Engineering (10th ed., Pearson) — software process models, object-oriented and function-oriented design, real-time systems, software testing, configuration management, dependable/critical systems, reliability engineering, component-based software engineering; Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (9th ed.) — supplementary process/testing/quality coverage; IEEE/ISO 12207 — software life-cycle processes; SWEBOK — body-of-knowledge cross-reference.