INF3705
ASSIGNMENT 1 2024
, lOMoARcPSD|21997160
INF3705/201/1/2024
Advanced Systems Development
(Information Systems)
INF3705
ASSIGNMENT 01
School of Computing
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Please activate your myUnisa and myLife email addresses and ensure you have
regular access to the myUnisa module site as well as your group site.
, lOMoARcPSD|21997160
INF3705/201/1/2024
Assignment 01
Total: 100
Question 1 [20 marks]
Critically discuss the 5 levels involved in the process of maturity model.
Question 2 [10 marks]
Suggest why it is important to make a distinction between developing the user
requirements and developing system requirements in the requirement engineering
process?
Question 3 [10 marks]
Briefly describe the three (3) types of software maintenance and explain why it is
sometimes difficult to distinguish between them.
Question 4 [12 marks]
Apart from challenges of heterogeneity, social changes, trust, and security, identify
six (6) other problems and challenges that software engineering is likely to face in
the 21st century.
Question 5 [08 marks]
Explain why design conflict might arise when designing an architecture for which
both availability and security requirements are the most important non-functional
requirement?
Question 6 [12 marks]
Explain in details what is release testing and what is user testing, explain the difference
between release testing and user testing?
Question 7 [8 marks]
List and explain the key stages in the process of system construction by
composition?
Question 8 [20 marks]
8.1 List and explain 4 levels of software reuse [8 marks]
8.2 List and explain 6 points suggested by (Bayersdorfer 2007) for companies
managing projects that use open source.
[12 marks].
ASSIGNMENT 1 2024
, lOMoARcPSD|21997160
INF3705/201/1/2024
Advanced Systems Development
(Information Systems)
INF3705
ASSIGNMENT 01
School of Computing
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Please activate your myUnisa and myLife email addresses and ensure you have
regular access to the myUnisa module site as well as your group site.
, lOMoARcPSD|21997160
INF3705/201/1/2024
Assignment 01
Total: 100
Question 1 [20 marks]
Critically discuss the 5 levels involved in the process of maturity model.
Question 2 [10 marks]
Suggest why it is important to make a distinction between developing the user
requirements and developing system requirements in the requirement engineering
process?
Question 3 [10 marks]
Briefly describe the three (3) types of software maintenance and explain why it is
sometimes difficult to distinguish between them.
Question 4 [12 marks]
Apart from challenges of heterogeneity, social changes, trust, and security, identify
six (6) other problems and challenges that software engineering is likely to face in
the 21st century.
Question 5 [08 marks]
Explain why design conflict might arise when designing an architecture for which
both availability and security requirements are the most important non-functional
requirement?
Question 6 [12 marks]
Explain in details what is release testing and what is user testing, explain the difference
between release testing and user testing?
Question 7 [8 marks]
List and explain the key stages in the process of system construction by
composition?
Question 8 [20 marks]
8.1 List and explain 4 levels of software reuse [8 marks]
8.2 List and explain 6 points suggested by (Bayersdorfer 2007) for companies
managing projects that use open source.
[12 marks].
