Examination question paper: January 2024 (Main)
Module code: CS6003ES
Component Number: Exam
Module title: Advanced Software Engineering
Module leader: Dr. Lochandaka Ranathunga
Date:
Start time:
Duration: 2 Hours
Exam type: Unseen
Materials supplied:
Materials permitted: Scientific Calculator
Warning: Candidates are warned that possession of
unauthorised materials in an examination is a serious
assessment offence.
Instructions to This exam contains 2 parts (Part A and B).
candidates: Candidates MUST answer all MCQ question given in
Part A and any three (3) questions from Part B.
Do not turn page over until
instructed
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Part A
Mark Answers for all the questions
Q. 1: Which of the following stage is least relevant stage in a software development
process?
A. Requirement Elicitation
B. Software Maintenance
C. Deployment
D. Feasibility analysis.
Q. 2: V Life cycle model can be divided in to two main phases, those are …
A. Inception and Development
B. Decomposition and Integration
C. Development and Testing
D. Development and Maintenance
Q. 3: Which of the following process model requires user involvement throughout the
project?
A. Waterfall process
B. V Life cycle model
C. Agile
D. RAD
Q. 4: Which of the following two attributes represents software quality as whole?
A. Clear Requirements and Executable Code
B. Complete Requirements and Acceptable Design
C. Current Usefulness and Potential Usefulness
D. Complete Design and Useability Testing
Q. 5: System testing should investigate
A. Non-functional requirements only not Functional requirements
B. Functional requirements only not non-functional requirements
C. Non-functional requirements and Functional requirements
D. Non-functional requirements or Functional requirements.
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Q.6: What is meant by software “Phase out”?
A. Completion of one phase of a software process
B. Completely removing a software from its use.
C. Software development deviate from its planned process
D. Use of outdated software
Q.7: Which of the following is not a feature of an Incremental Development?
A. Cost in change of software increases
B. Continuous customer feedback available
C. More rapid development and deployment
D. Iterates through Specification, Development and Validation
Q.8: When Comparing Spiral model with the other software development process
models, what is the significant difference?
A. More weight given for the requirement elicitation.
B. More emphasis on risk factors in each phase
C. More concentration on Budgetary requirements
D. More weight given for the development and maintenance.
Q.9: When an ambiguous requirement may be interpreted in different ways by
developers, this situation referred as …
A. Requirement imprecision
B. System Requirement
C. Invalid Requirement
D. Bug
Q.10: What is the main objective of software testing?
A. Finding Errors
B. Show that software is operative.
C. Fix the bugs.
D. Show the software adhere to the requirements.
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Q.11: Normally which of the following role perform debugging?
A. Business analyst
B. Tester
C. Developer
D. Trainer
Q. 12: Which of the following is not a testing principle?
A. Absence of Error Fallacy
B. Defect clustering
C. Pesticide paradox
D. Testing is context independent.
Q. 13: What is meant by shared memory interface in software testing?
A. Same input feed into two or more software interfaces
B. Block of memory variable shared by two or more software functions.
C. Output of one function passes as input for another function
D. One function request service of another function
Q. 14: The name of the testing which is done to make sure the existing features are
not affected by new changes.
A. Recursive testing
B. White box testing
C. Unit testing
D. Regression testing
Q. 15: An alarm is to ring once the temperature falls above 40 and then it is turned off
when the temperature is less than 20. Identify the most suitable Equivalence Partition
which belong to the same class.
A. 0,1,2,59
B. 1, 6, 9, 5
C. 20, 29, 35, 40
D. 40, 57, 67, 99
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Q. 16: Which of the following role responsible for the acceptance testing?
A. Client
B. Developer
C. Tester
D. Software Designer
Q. 17: Cyclomatic Complexity is a measure for determining …
A. Number of test cases
B. Number of test paths
C. Number of code lines to test
D. Percentage of test coverage.
Q. 18: Which of the following is not a normal stage of software risk management?
A. Risk identification
B. Risk planning
C. Risk mitigation
D. Risk monitoring.
Q. 19: Which of the following step is not available in a Sprint Cycle of an agile
process?
A. User story selection
B. Development of functionality
C. Review the operation
D. Outline the integration plan.
Q. 20: Calculate the Cyclomatic Complexity of the following code fragment.
INT X = INPUT.
IF X > 5
THEN Statement 1.
ELSE Statement 2;
END
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
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Part B
Answer for 3 questions out of 5 questions.
Question 1
Case Study: Face2Face Cosmetics
Consider the following business case to answer the questions. Assume that you are assigned
to develop a software system for the following business requirements.
Face2Face Cosmetics (Pvt) Ltd. wishes to integrate a software system with the customer care
operations. Customer care service intended to deliver in two modes where direct contact of a
customer care officer or online form-based queries.
The described system requirements are as follows:
• Software interface needed for entering the customer profiles and their queries, which
is in assistance of call center operator.
• Form based web interface needed to take the customer queries based on product
items.
• In web-based form, it should be able to identify real customers based on purchased
item codes.
• Customer inquiries are to be categorized as complaints or request for help.
• Further, customer feedback can be collected through both operational modes of the
system.
• The customer feedback within a given period can be categorized as positive, neutral,
and negative feedback based on the product item.
• Customer queries are forwarded to back-office specialists by the call center operators.
• If any query is not attended within 24 hours, those are to be marked as red and sent to
the customer care manager.
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Based on the above given requirements, you must analyse the hidden requirements of the
intended system.
a) Identify the roles available in the intended system. [5 marks]
b) List the functional and non-functional requirements of the given system.
[7 marks]
c) Draw a use case diagrams for the software system. [8 marks]
Question 2
a) What is referred as dynamic testing in software testing? [8 marks]
b) Describe the testing strategy used in V model with its’ Stages. [8 marks]
c) Consider the following Pseudo code fragment.
int marks = arr[0];
int p = 1;
while (p < n) {
if (arr[p] < marks)
marks = arr[p];
p = p + 1;
}
return marks
Draw Control Flow Graph (CFG) for the above code and calculate the Cyclomatic
Complexity. [4 marks]
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Question 3
a) Give the benefits of verification and validation in software development and describe
the techniques of verification and validation in the process of software development.
[6 marks]
b) Use COCOMO application composition model to calculate effort needed to complete
an application with the following features.
Number of application points: 100
Application point productivity: Nominal (rate 12)
Percentage identified as reusable: 40%
[6 marks]
c) Write short note on the followings.
i. Black box testing
ii. Stress Testing
[2 x 4 marks]
Question 4
a) Describe the following terms in the context of software project management.
(i) Critical Path
(ii) Slack Time
[2 x 4 marks]
(iii) Illustrate a network diagram for the following activities using a standard diagrammatic
technique. (12 marks)
Activity Duration (weeks) Dependencies
a 8 none
b 10 none
c 8 a, b
d 9 a
e 5 b
f 3 c, d
g 2 d
h 4 f, g
i 3 e, f
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Question 5
a) In agile eXtreame Programming (XP) method, Test First Development (TFD) is a testing
approach commonly followed, describe the TFD.
[5 marks]
b) Briefly describe the Pair Programming approach used in agile software development.
[5 marks]
c) External Quality attributes of software normally depend on internal attributes. List the
external and internal quality attributes of a software and their inter dependencies.
[10 marks]
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