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Paper: 98-Comp-A6, Software Engineering — 2016-May, 3 hours, closed book, no calculators. Answer any five of the eight questions; all five count equally (20 marks each, 100 total). All eight questions are answered below.
Reference texts: Sommerville, Software Engineering (10th ed., Pearson) — software process models, object-oriented and function-oriented design, real-time systems, software testing, formal methods, rapid software development, client-server/distributed architectures; Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (9th ed.) — supplementary process/testing coverage; IEEE/ISO 12207 — software life-cycle processes; SWEBOK — body-of-knowledge cross-reference.