Software Engineering

UNIT I : The Nature of Software, The Unique Nature of Web Apps, Software Engineering, The Software Process, Software Engineering Practice, Software Myths. A Generic Process Model, Process Assessment and Improvement, Prescriptive Process Models, Specialized Process Models, The Unified Process, Personal and Team Process Models, Process Technology. 

UNIT II:  Agility, Agility and the Cost of Change, Agile Process, Extreme Programming (XP), Other Agile Process Models, A Tool Set for the Agile Process, Software Engineering Knowledge, Core Principles, Principles That Guide Each Framework Activity, Requirements Engineering, Establishing the Ground work, Eliciting Requirements, Developing Use Cases, Building the Requirements Model, Negotiating Requirements, Validating Requirements. 

UNIT III: Requirements Analysis, Scenario-Based Modeling, UML Models That Supplement the Use Case, Data Modeling Concepts, Class-Based Modeling, Requirements Modeling Strategies, Flow- Oriented Modeling, Creating a Behavioral Model, Patterns for Requirements Modeling, Requirements Modeling for Web Apps. 

UNIT IV:  Design within the Context of Software Engineering, The Design Process, Design Concepts, The Design Model, Software Architecture, Architectural Genres, Architectural Styles, Assessing Alternative Architectural Designs, Architectural Mapping Using Data Flow, Components, Designing Class-Based Components, Conducting Component-Level Design, Component-Level Design for Web Apps, Designing Traditional Components, Component-Based Development. 

UNIT V: The Golden Rules, User Interface Analysis and Design, Interface Analysis, Interface Design Steps, Web App Interface Design, Design Evaluation, Elements of Software Quality Assurance, SQA Tasks, Goals & Metrics, Statistical SQA, Software Reliability, A Strategic Approach to Software Testing, Strategic Issues, Test Strategies for Conventional Software, Test Strategies for Object-Oriented Software, Test Strategies for Web Apps, Validation Testing, System Testing, The Art of Debugging, Software Testing Fundamentals, Internal and External Views of Testing, White-Box Testing ,Basis Path Testing. 

Paper-1:

UNIT-I

a) Illustrate Generic Software process model

b)Write the characteristics of WebApps

a)Illustrate Unified Process in software development.

b)What are software myths, and how do they affect the perception of software engineering?

UNIT-II

a)Describe the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology and its key features

b) What is the role of requirements engineering in Agile methodologies?

a) Write elicitation and validation of requirements of agile process model.

b) Explain the concept of 'Agility and the Cost of Change in software development.

UNIT-III

a) Define UML models and their role in supplementing use cases.

b) What are the key strategies used in requirements modeling for WebApps?

a)Discuss the importance of class-based modeling in requirements analysis.

b) Explain the concept of creating a behavioral model in software engineering.

UNIT-IV

a) Discuss the relationship between design concepts and the software design model.

b) Explain the role of architectural styles in software architecture.

a) Describe the process of component-level design for WebApps.

b) What is component-based development and its significance in software engineering?

UNIT-V

a) Discuss the 'Golden Rules of user interface design and their application in WebApp design.

b) Explain the strategic issues in software testing for conventional software. OR

a) Explain about Unit testing in-detail.

b) What is white-box testing and black-box testing?

Paper-2:

UNIT-I

a) Explain about overview of the Software process.

b) Explain water fall model with a diagram

b) Explain the perspective process model with example.

UNIT-II

a) Explain about Agile process with suitable example,

b) Explain software requirements document.

a)Discuss a tool set for agile process.

b)Distinguish between negotiating and validating Requirements?

UNIT-III

a) What is meant by software design? Explain the traditional approach.

b) Explain the need of software requirement specification.

a) What is meant by cohesion? Explain different types of cohesion.

b) Explain Requirement gathering and Analysis.

UNIT-IV

a)Explain the steps in software documentation and give its uses.

b) Distinguish between white box testing and black box testing. OR

a) Explain the general problems associated with testing

b) Discuss about the Software Quality Assurance.

UNIT-V

a) Explain various aspects of the configuration management.

b) Explain the basic issues in software Reuse.

a) Explain software reuse in detail.

b) Explain the cost of software maintenance.

Paper-3:

UNIT-I

a) Compare and contrast. waterfall model and spiral model.

b) Define process model. What are evolutionary process models? Explain in detail

a) What are software myths? Explain in detail.

b)Define software engineering. Explain about process patterns.

UNIT-II

a) Define agility and agile team with different Characteristics of Agility.

b) How Extreme Programming used in a Nutshell.

a) Explain briefly the requirement engineering process with neat sketch and ?

b)Describe each process with an example Distinguish between negotiating and validating Requirements

UNIT-III

a)Explain the use of UML, for object-oriented design.

b)Explain briefly about Flow Oriented Modeling

a) Demonstrate the steps performed by analyst in creating a behavioral model.

b)Explain in detail Requirements Modeling for WebApps.

UNIT-IV

a) Explain the design process in software engineering and its levels.

b)Describe in detail about to design a traditional components

a)What are architectural styles and patterns? Describe some common architectural styles and patterns used in software development. 

b) Compare and contrast the design steps for transaction mapping and steps for transform mapping.

UNIT-V

a)Describe golden rules for interface design.

b)What is unit testing? Why is it important? Explain the unit test consideration and test procedure.

a)Demonstrate about Test Strategies for WebApps

b) Explain Integration & debugging activities

Paper-4:

UNIT-I

a) Describe the main activities involved in the Waterfall model 

b) Compare and contrast the Waterfall model with the Spiral model.

a) Explain the significance of process assessment and improvement in software engineering 

b)Discuss specialized process models and their applications.

UNIT-II

a)Define the Agile Process Model and explain its core principles.

b) Discuss the main features of Extreme Programming (XP).

a) Discuss the differences between eliciting and validating requirements.

b) Explain the process of developing use cases in requirements engineering

UNIT-III

a) Illustrate the key components of the Analysis Model

b) Explain data modeling concepts and their importance.

a) Describe the process of creating a behavioral model in requirements modeling

b) Illustrate the flow-oriented modeling technique.

UNIT-IV

a) Describe the main stages of the Design Process in software engineering.

b) Explain the significance of the Design Model.

a)Describe the approach to component-based development.

b) Discuss the concept of architectural genres and their impact on software design

UNIT V

a) Explain the principles of User Interface Analysis and Design.

b) Illustrate Basis Path Testing with examples.

a) Explain the various test strategies for web applications.

b) Discuss the importance of validation testing and system testing in software development.

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