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Software Engineering Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Test cases made -> code compiles -> make code pass
Test- driven development
Programming style
Phase
Law of demeter
2. (smell) One class delegates all of its requests to another class
data clumps
middle man
Association
Liskov substitution principle
3. Evaluates upper limits of operational parameters
sequence diagram
Capacity testing
Erich Gamma - Richard Helm - Ralph Johnson - John Vlissides
First- class citizen
4. Approach to team management that splits management up into two people with separate tasks
a refactoring
Design Patterns
Anonymous function
technical managerial approach
5. Testing that verifies that individual units of source code are working
middle man
unit testing
Lifecycle
SOP
6. How developed code is (testing - documentation etc)
regression testing
Maturity level
Large class
First- class citizen
7. One or two paragraphs of text outlining a use case
Large class
intellectual property
Non - functional Requirements
Casual use case
8. Derived methods should not assume more or deliver less
Software Quality
Liskov substitution principle
Maturity level
code smell
9. How well your fulfil your requirements
Software Quality
white box testing
Integration testing
data clumps
10. Representational State Transfer.
code smell
OOP
model- driven development
REST
11. Iterative - incremental framework for project management.
Validation
Scrum (Agile software development)
feature envy
Security testing
12. Testing can show the presence but not absence of errors
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13. Reusable - abstract 'blocks' of design
jquery
Programming syntax
Fully- dressed use case
Design pattern
14. A few sentences summarizing a use case
Capacity testing
brief use case
Large class
Validation
15. AKA: Function Constant or Function Literal A function defined - and possibly called - without being bound to an identifier.
Anonymous function
Large class
Elicitation
Parser
16. (smell) Making one change requires changes in multiple places
Semantic Web
unit testing
shotgun surgery
Requirements
17. Improve the internal design and implementation of code without affecting external behavior
statement
Fully- dressed use case
Test- driven development
Refactoring
18. An operator used to denote anonymous functions or closures.
Association
Lambda
Test- driven development
Stress testing
19. Degree to which the system meets the specified requirements and development standards
Test- driven development
shotgun surgery
software quality
Design Patterns
20. (smell) many parameters are being passed into a method
Functional Requirements
Algorithm
long parameter list
Programming syntax
21. Formal testing against end user specifications
conflict
Software Quality
Casual use case
Acceptance testing
22. The rigorousness of the tests that are able to be placed on the code
Lifecycle
Elicitation
Maturity
copyright
23. Word - logo or symbol used to distinguish one organization's wares and services from another's
path
Analysis...
trademark
a refactoring
24. The process of attempting to optimise the read performance of a database by adding redundant data or by grouping data
Stress testing
Denormalization
Dijkstra's law
branch
25. Ways to express the system's subsystems and their relationship
jquery
architectural design
Functional Requirements
Denormalization
26. Testing the whole system for functionality
system testing
Design patterns
Denormalization
intellectual property
27. The degree to which code is free of defects
long method
Functional Requirements
code quality
patent
28. A movement that promotes common formats for data.
Functional Requirements
Semantic Web
Lifecycle
Law of demeter
29. Protecting the embodiment of an idea
Constructor
copyright
a refactoring
unit testing
30. The process of eliminating data redundancy by ensuring that tables in a database pertain to a single topic
feature- driven development
Database normalization
middle man
Liskov substitution principle
31. (smell) If a set of variables are used together in multiple places
use case
Functional Requirements
trademark
data clumps
32. Each line of code is covered once
Maturity
Liskov substitution principle
statement
Lambda
33. Small - behaviour- preserving - source- to- source transformation
a refactoring
Capacity testing
Constructor
model- driven development
34. Freezing the state of the source code at a particular point
Versioning
SRS Documentation
Analysis...
shotgun surgery
35. A design pattern that allows behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically.
white box testing
Dijkstra's law
Requirements
Decorator pattern
36. Force software to fail in order to see how it recovers
code quality
long parameter list
Recovery testing
Feasibility
37. Lack of errors in code - readability etc
Code Quality
Cowboy coding
duplicated code
Refactoring
38. Contract between inventor - assignee and state giving a time and geographically limited monopoly
Maturity level
Dijkstra's law
patent
Delegation
39. 1st step of requirements gathering
Elicitation
unit testing
Integration testing
Functional Requirements
40. Single step in a lifecycle
Phase
Casual use case
Dijkstra's law
SOP
41. Absence of lifecycle
Phase
Data classes
Cowboy coding
Integration testing
42. JQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML.
jquery
Decorator pattern
Requirements
Delegation
43. AKA: Object - Entity - or Value - An entity that can be constructed at run - time - passed as a parameter - returned from a subroutine - or assigned into a variable.
SOAP
First- class citizen
Elicitation
model- driven development
44. (smell) A method using another class more than its own
Usability testing
SOAP
Maturity
feature envy
45. 1. A language feature that supports prototype- based programming. 2. Originally: One object relying upon another to provide a specified set of functionalities. 3. In .NET: A way of telling which method to call when an event is triggered
Delegation
SOAP
Capacity testing
Recovery testing
46. A method that initializes a newly instantiated object
Constructor
conflict
Programming syntax
Dijkstra's law
47. Each team member given set of features to work on
Software Quality
Scrum (Agile software development)
feature- driven development
Dijkstra's law
48. A computer program that divides code up into functional components
Parser
Design
Constructor
Elicitation
49. A powerful motivator for change
Association
conflict
Design patterns
Security testing
50. (smell)class with too many instance variables or too much code
OOP
Large class
jquery
Lazy initialization or Lazy loading (Design pattern)