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25-Comp-A6 Software Engineering: May 2015

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  1. Question 1 The Software Development Process
  2. Question 2 Function-Oriented Software Design
  3. Question 3 Object-Oriented Software Design
  4. Question 4 Software Testing
  5. Question 5 Distributed Software Systems
  6. Question 6 Real-Time Systems
  7. Question 7 Software Reliability
  8. Question 8 Software Verification and Validation

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National Exams — May 2015 — 98-Comp-A6 Software Engineering. Three-hour, closed-book exam, no calculator permitted. Format: eight questions, candidates answer any five (all questions equal weight — each of the five counted questions is worth 20%; only the first five questions as they appear in the answer book are marked). All eight questions are solved below for completeness.

Reference texts: Sommerville, Software Engineering (10th ed., Pearson) — software process models, function-oriented and object-oriented design, software testing, distributed software engineering, real-time software engineering, reliability engineering, verification and validation; Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (9th ed.) — supplementary process/testing coverage; Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg & Blair, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design — scalability, distributed objects, client-server architectures.