Software Engineering : Previous Year Questions

 Chapter 1: Introduction to software engineering and process models

1 mark

-Q. State any two major activities represented in spiral model.

Q. What do you mean by economical feasibility study?

Q. State one difference between iterative process flow and evolutionary process flow of a system.

Q. What do you mean by inception?

Q. What is elaboration?

-Q. What do you mean by deployment?

Q. List any two umbrella activities of software engineering process framework.

Q.  What are the basic activities involved in software coding phase?

Q. What is prescriptive process model ?

Q.  What are the major activities of spiral process model ?

Q. State the purpose of testing.

Q. Write any two phases of RUP.

5 mark

Q. Explain umbrella activities of software engineering.

Q.  Explain coding and system implementation of the system development life-cycle.

Q. Write a note on system maintainence.

Q. Explain the characteristics of system in detail.

Q. What do you mean by system design, explain it's types in detail.

-Q. Write a note on priliminary investingation of a system.

-Q. Write a short note on concurrent development model.

-Q. Explain any five principles of software engineering practices. (David hooker)

-Q. What is prototyping? Explain steps of prototyping.

Q. What do you mean by iterative development? Give it's benefits.

Q. Write a short note on elements of system.

Chaper 2: Agile Development

1 mark

-Q. What is pair programming?

-Q. List any two key XP activities.

5 mark

Q.  Explain coding and system implementation of the system development life-cycle..

Q. Explain any five principles of active agility.

Q. Explain phases of ASD life cycle.

Chapter 3: Requirement Analysis

1 mark

Q.Which people/person are called stakeholders of a system ?

Q. What is the purpose of requirement traceability table ?

Q. What is meant by structured analysis?

Q. List any two components of structured analysis.

Q. Define Software requirement specifications (SRS).

Q. What is Elicitation?

Q. What is negotiation?

Q. Define Risk Analysis.

Q. Give any two applications where UML can be used.

5 mark

Q. Explain elaboration and specification of requirements engineering.

-Q. Explain Requirement engineering task in brief.

-Q. Compare structured and unstructured interview.

Q. What is aggregation ? Explain multilevel aggregation with suitable example.

Chapter 4: Requirements Modeling

1 mark

Q. What is purpose of use case view?

Q.What are components of deployment diagram ?

5 mark

Q. Discuss the components of sequence diagram.

Q. What is component diagram ? Explain in with suitable example.

Q. Draw class diagram for airport system consisting of at least three classes. Define appropriate relationships, association with multiplicity.

Q. (A) An automated systems is to be designed for ATM banking. A bank can have multiple customers and all of them are issued the ATM cards. Customer swap the card which is verified by ATM. Customer select the kind of a transaction. If the transaction is to withdraw amount, it verifies the limit and minimum balance required. It also prints various transaction reports, account balance statement etc. Consider above aspects and draw the following diagrams : 

(i) Draw use case diagram. 

(ii) Draw sequence diagram.

Q. Draw a collaboration diagram for “student admission system”.

What is unit testing.

Compare alpha and beta testing

Write a short note on transaction processing system

explain any five component of data dictionary