CMPT 276 Final Exam Review
This summary is meant to highlight what type of material is and is not testable. Many questions may rely on
you understanding and applying this knowledge; it is not sufficient to memorize this list, you must be able to
use the material. Some items may have been specifically mentioned in class as being testable and may not be
mentioned here.
•Most topics listed refer to the slide headings.
•“Know” means have memorized.
⋆“Know the days of the week” means have memorized Monday, Tuesday, ...; and “understand”
each of them.
⋆You do not need to memorize explanations word-for-word; you should know in your own words.
•“Understand” means: once told the topic (or items), be able to talk about it/them.
⋆“Understand all flavors of ice-cream” means given a flavor (say chocolate mint chip), be able
to describe it; compare (similarities) and contrast (differences) it to other flavors. But, don’t
memorize all the flavor names (not asked “List all 31 flavors”).
•The test will focus on material from lecture, but there will be some on Android development and tools.
⋆This guide summarizes content from lecture and the Android assignments.
11.Lecture Content
Before Midterm
0)Admin
•Review expectations and consequences for academic honesty.
•Nothing testable.
1)Intro to Software Engineering (SE)
•Know what is software engineering, and the importance of software.
•Know the four fundamental software process activities.
•Understand each of the four essential attributes of good software.
•Compare and contrast generic software and custom software.
•Understand software engineering diversity
•Understand each type of application.
2)Ethics and Case Studies
•Understand the issues of professional responsibility
•Understand code of ethics and each item in the ACM/IEEE code of ethics
•Nothing on specific case studies, but you should understand the different types of applications
which they are, and be able to discus general differences between those types.
3)Software Processes
•Know what a software process is.
•Know the four software process activities (same as “Intro to SE slides).
•Understand each of the steps in the “Software Specification” overview.
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•Know the basic process to get from System Specification to an Executable System.
•Understand the different design activities.
•Know three testing stages.
•Know the two software development (planning) paradigms
•Know the two software delivery (timing) options.
⋆Able to explain how each software development paradigm relates to each software delivery
option.
•Know the waterfall model and its phases (don’t need exact names).
⋆Understand waterfall model’s ability to cope with change.
•Know incremental development, and how it can be used by either paradigm.
⋆Know 2 benefits of incremental development over waterfall.
⋆Know 2 drawbacks to incremental development.
•Understand refactoring.
•Understand reuse-oriented SE.
4)Version Control
•Purpose and need for version control.
•Know what each of the following means:
⋆repository, clone, import/add, commit, pull, push revert, history, diff, merge, merge conflict,
file lock.
•Know lock-edit-unlock and/vs checkout-edit-merge.
•Understand atomic operations, branch/fork, tag/label/baseline.
•Know the first rule of being a good team member
•Know the three points about how coding with source control is different, and why.
5)Change Risk
•Know why change is inevitable, and the cost of change.
•Know change avoidance vs change tolerance, and one technique suited to each.
•Prototyping:
⋆Know when and how it is used.
⋆Know what can be ignored.
⋆Know why it is a throw-away.
⋆Know how it avoids change.
⋆Understand the ways it improves a system
•Incremental delivery:
⋆Know how it tolerates change.
⋆Know use and benefits of incremental development, and incremental delivery.
⋆Know Incremental delivery cycle.
⋆Know how it reduces risk of project failure.
⋆Understand problems with incremental delivery.
•Rational Unified Process
⋆Able to explain its use of iteration, phases, and workflows.
⋆Understand and able to explain each RUP good practice.
6)Agile
•Know the “inspiration” for agile methods
•Know the four “values” of the Agile Manifesto. Able to explain what each one is a choice between,
and why agile methods make the choice it does.
•Know the five principles of agile methods.
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