CS451 Final Exam: Study Guideline

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CS451Final Exam Study Guideline

• Yugi Lee
• STB 555
• [phone]
• yugi_at_cstp.umkc.edu
• www.cstp.umkc.edu/yugi

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Final Exam Part-1

• Part I (70)
• Date Nov 21 (Tu), 1230 - 145pm
• Open book and open notebook exam
• 3-5 essay questions
• Scope Textbook (Ch 3-7, 12-14, 17-18, 20-23),
  Lecture note (Lecture 5-9)
• Part II (30)
• Due Date Dec 7 (Tu), 1230pm
• Essay Critique (single space, 3 pages) Essay
  Chapter Summary Presentation Slides

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Project Management-1 Pressman (Ch3-5), Lecture
note-5-1,5-2

• project management?
• project management focus and skill?
• Team structure Project characteristics?
• Software metrics?
• Cost estimate approaches?
• LOC?
• FP?
• COCOMO?
• Make-buy decision tree?
• Computing expected cost?

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Project Management-2 Pressman (Ch7), Lecture
note-5-3

• Why are projects late?
• Task sets task network?
• Scheduling principles?
• Team structure Project characteristics?
• Effort allocation?
• Timeline chart?

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Analysis/Design Models Pressman (Ch12-13,
20-22), Lecture note-6

• Structural Paradigm Data modeling? Data Object?
  Relationship?
• Entity and Relationship Model (ER)?
• Data Flow Diagram (DFD)?
• State Transaction Diagram?
• Control Flow Diagram?
• Object Oriented (OO) Paradigm Class? Object?
• Use case, CRC, Class diagram,
• State diagram?
• Sequence diagram?
• Compare and contrast Structural models with OO
  models.

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Software Architecture Pressman (Ch14), Lecture
note-7

• Why architecture?
• Architectural style?
• Data centered architecture?
• Data flow architecture?
• Call and return architecture?
• Layered architecture?
• Client server architecture?
• Architecture design?
• Architectural partition?

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Software Testing Pressman (Ch17-18), Lecture
note-8

• Testability? Why testing?
• Test case? How to generate test cases?
• White-box testing? Why?
• Exhaustive testing
• Selective testing
• Path coverage testing
• Cyclomatic complexity
• Black-box testing? Why?
• Equivalence class?
• Boundary value analysis?

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Software Testing Pressman (Ch18, 23),
Lecture note-9

• Testing strategies?
• Unit test?
• Integrating testing? Top-down, bottom-up,
  sandwich integration
• Object-Oriented Testing?
• OO testing strategy?
• random testing?
• partition testing?
• inter-class testing?
• Testing case design?
• How does OO testing differ from classical testing?