software enginnering

1. Software Engineering Fundamentals

 

January-2004 [4]

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b)         Can all software projects be managed with the help of evolutionary model of software development?                                                                                                          [4]

 

July-2004 [6]

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c)         Explain the essential principles that form the basis of Software Engineering. How far these principles are being supported by C++?                                                                    [6]

 

January-2005 [26]

1.         Give brief answer to the following questions:

a)         What is software crisis? Discuss the various myths of software industry.                        [4]

e)         What are the output documents generated from each stage of the waterfall model?      [4]

2.

a)         Distinguish between a program and software product. What do you understand by the term software life cycle model of software development?                                               [9]

b)         Explain the spiral model for software development. Why is it considered a meta-model?                                                                                                                                       [9]

 

July-2005 [8]

1.         Give brief answers to the following questions.

a)         What do you understand by software crisis? What are its symptoms and causes? What are its remedies?                                                                                               [4]

b)         What do you understand by a software development process? What problems might occur if a software development organization does not use any specific development process?                                                                                                               [4]

January-2006 [4]

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a)         Which production process model is useful for developing very large complex software?

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July-2006 [9]

1.         Give brief answers to the following questions.

a)         Briefly, explain the problems that may arise if the build and fix model is used for developing a large software product.                                                                     [4]

6.

a)         Suppose a very large software is to be developed for an innovative application. Naturally, the development would be beset with many risks due to the innovative product to be developed. Explain which development model should be used. Explain how the risks would be handled in the model.                                                                                       [5]

January-2007 [4]

1.

a)         What do you mean by software crisis? What are some of its indicators?                         [4]

July-2007 [18]

3.         Explain the various types of prototyping models in software development. Explain where each model succeeds and where it fails.                                                         [18]

January-2008 [4]

1.

a)         Discuss why the prototyping approach to software development cannot be used for developing all types of software projects. When this approach is more useful?               [4]