B.TECH - Semester 7 software engineering and project management Question Paper 2013 (dec)
Practice authentic previous year university questions for better exam preparation.
Sample Questions
- What is the most important difference between generic software product development and custom software development?
- Which of the software engineering paradigms you have learned do you think would be most effective? Why?
- What is a 'walkthrough'? What is an inspection?
- Explain why testing can detect the presence of errors, not their absence.
- What is project scheduling? ( $5 \times 4=20$ Marks) PART - B (Answer any one question from each module. Each question carries 20 marks.) Module - I
- (a) What are major task of requirement engineering?
- (b) What are the risks and benefits of the prototyping model development paradigm? OR
- (a) What is modeling and what is its purpose in the software development process?
- (b) State benefits of Capability maturity model (CMM) for software engineering.
- (a) Explain the concept of data flow diagram with an example. 10
- (b) Do you design software when you "write" a program? What makes software design different from coding? OR
- (a) Explain why the process of project planning is iterative and why a plan must be continually reviewed during a software project.
- (b) Narrate different software project estimation techniques.
- (a) What is Risk management? What are the steps to do it? 10
- (b) Why do we need system testing? Explain with an example. OR
- (a) What is integration testing? Explain with an example the types of integration testing.
- (b) Explain software maintenance process and the types of maintenance.
- (a) How does CASE tools help software engineers in software development? List any five CASE tools with their specific application. 10
- (b) Explain the basic principles of software project scheduling. 10 OR
- (a) Describe software configuration management process. 10
- (b) What is a task set? Write the various steps in selecting appropriate task set for a project. ( $4 \times 20=80$ Marks)