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| List three characteristics of a good software metric. |
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Definition
| Simple and computable, empirically and intuitively persuasive, consistent use of units and dimensions, programming language independent, provides effective mechanism for quality feedback |
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| Component-level design metrics focus on what three internal characteristics of software components? |
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| Module cohesion, coupling, and complexity |
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| Technical testing metrics fall into two major categories. What are they? |
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| Metrics that focus on test coverage and metrics that focus on the duration of the testing process. |
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| Summarize the steps used in a WebApp testing strategy |
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Definition
• WebApp content model is reviewed to uncover errors.
• Interface model is reviewed to ensure all use-cases are accommodated.
• Design model for WebApp is reviewed to uncover navigation errors.
• User interface is tested to uncover presentation errors and/or navigation mechanics problems.
• Selected functional components are unit tested.
• Navigation throughout the architecture is tested.
• WebApp is implemented in a variety of different environmental configurations and the compatibility of WebApp with each is assessed.
• Security tests are conducted.
• Performance tests are conducted.
• WebApp is tested by a controlled and monitored group of end-users (looking for content errors, navigation errors, usability concerns, compatibility issues, reliability, and performance). |
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| What are the objectives for content testing? |
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• Uncover syntactic errors in all media (e.g. typos)
• Uncover semantic errors (e.g. errors in completeness or accuracy)
• Find errors in organization or structure of content presented to end-user |
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| What is the difference between load testing and stress testing? |
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| Load testing attempts to determine how the WebApp and its server-side environments respond to various load conditions. Stress testing is a continuation of load testing that seeks to have the number of user, transactions, and data load meet and exceed operational limits. |
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Term
| What are the four P's of effective project management? |
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Definition
| people, product, process, and project |
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Term
| What steps can be taken to avoid many of the problems that cause software projects to fail? |
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Definition
• Start on the right foot (using adequate planning, scheduling and risk analysis)
• Maintain momentum
• Track progress
• Make smart decisions
• Conduct a postmortem analysis |
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Term
| List 4 of the 6 critical software practices required by performance-based management. |
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Definition
formal risk management
empirical cost and schedule estimation
metric-based project management
earned value tracking
defect tracking against quality targets
people-aware program management |
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Term
| How do software process metrics differ from software project metrics? |
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Definition
| Process metrics are used to make strategic decisions about how to complete (and ultimately, improve) common process framework activities while project metrics are used to monitor progress during a software development project and to control product quality. |
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| What are the goals for using object-oriented software metrics? |
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Definition
• To better understand product quality
• To assess effectiveness of the process
• To improve the quality of work performed at the project level |
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| What are four useful indicators of software quality that should have measures defined and monitored by the software project team? |
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Definition
| correctness, maintainability, integrity, usability |
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| Why is it important for software developers to make use of measurement to guide their work? |
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Definition
| Developers need to measure so that they can tell whether they are improving or not. Without measurements this is extremely difficult to achieve. Measurement can also provide an indication of product quality and the effectiveness of the project team. |
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