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Software Engineering Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Each team member given set of features to work on
REST
Validation
feature- driven development
Large class
2. (smell) If a set of variables are used together in multiple places
data clumps
Elicitation
use case
jquery
3. Test whether or not tasks can be accomplished efficiently by all levels of users
Dijkstra's law
Refactoring
Usability testing
OOP
4. (smell) client needs to use one object to get another and then use that one to get another
Association
Constructor
message chain
data clumps
5. Developing a plan for a product - system or component. 'how' a system should perform a task
white box testing
feature envy
long method
Design
6. (smell) Smell deodorant
Maturity level
Stress testing
Usability testing
comments
7. Verifies that system is protected against improper penetration
jquery
Feasibility
Security testing
duplicated code
8. Testing tactic based on whether inputs and outputs match up for required functionality
black box testing
Recovery testing
Fully- dressed use case
Design Patterns
9. Formal document outlining a task that needs to be performed on a system
Design Patterns
Fully- dressed use case
SOP
Programming style
10. A few sentences summarizing a use case
brief use case
feature envy
Integration testing
First- class citizen
11. Formal testing against end user specifications
Acceptance testing
Maturity level
architectural design
jquery
12. 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.
First- class citizen
Scrum (Agile software development)
intellectual property
SOP
13. Testing designed to uncover regressions (where stuff that used to work doesn't work anymore)
long parameter list
path
Association
regression testing
14. A movement that promotes common formats for data.
Semantic Web
Dijkstra's law
Decorator pattern
Use case diagram
15. How developed code is (testing - documentation etc)
SOP
Maturity level
Scrum (Agile software development)
regression testing
16. An operator used to denote anonymous functions or closures.
code quality
regression testing
Stakeholders
Lambda
17. Each possible path through the code is covered
Non - functional Requirements
Programming style
path
Design
18. Evaluates upper limits of operational parameters
SOP
Phase
Capacity testing
Closure
19. Iterative - incremental framework for project management.
Semantic Web
Anonymous function
Scrum (Agile software development)
Design
20. AKA: Lexical Closure or Function Closure - A function together with a referencing environment for the non - local variables of that function. The key aspect of a ______ is variables from outside the function retain there value from the time the closu
feature envy
Closure
Design
software quality
21. Recognizable indicator that something may be wrong with code
Software Quality
code smell
middle man
white box testing
22. 4th step of requirements gathering
SOP
Validation
Database normalization
Fully- dressed use case
23. Testing can show the presence but not absence of errors
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24. How well your fulfil your requirements
long parameter list
inappropriate intimacy
Delegation
Software Quality
25. Representational State Transfer.
Phase
WSDL
shotgun surgery
REST
26. (smell) A class whose only purpose is to hold data
Data classes
middle man
Semantic Web
feature- driven development
27. Executes system in a manner that demands abnormal amounts of resources
Elicitation
Maturity
Stress testing
Maturity level
28. Object oriented programming; using objects to solve problems.
Recovery testing
Lexer
OOP
Versioning
29. (smell)class with too many instance variables or too much code
Functional Requirements
black box testing
Large class
Quality metrics
30. Testing can show the presence but not absence of errors
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31. Diagram outlining the tasks that are going to be performed by the user
Use case diagram
Liskov substitution principle
middle man
Parser
32. Derived methods should not assume more or deliver less
Usability testing
Specification
intellectual property
Liskov substitution principle
33. Testing tactic that looks at all ways that data can flow through the code
Erich Gamma - Richard Helm - Ralph Johnson - John Vlissides
Elicitation
white box testing
code quality
34. A way to automatically grade code based on heuristics
Programming style
sequence diagram
Quality metrics
patent
35. Degree to which the system meets the specified requirements and development standards
software quality
Stakeholders
Stress testing
Lazy initialization or Lazy loading (Design pattern)
36. Series of phases through which software is developed
Lifecycle
middle man
Erich Gamma - Richard Helm - Ralph Johnson - John Vlissides
SOAP
37. 2nd step of requirements gathering
Denormalization
Feasibility
Analysis...
Integration testing
38. JQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML.
Security testing
REST
jquery
Stakeholders
39. A powerful motivator for change
Large class
conflict
Lexer
technical managerial approach
40. (smell) many parameters are being passed into a method
duplicated code
a refactoring
Cowboy coding
long parameter list
41. Techniques for composing objects to form larger structures
Design patterns
Delegation
system testing
white box testing
42. The degree to which code is free of defects
code smell
software quality
Law of demeter
code quality
43. Description of possible sequences of interactions between a user and the system.
use case
duplicated code
WSDL
Code Quality
44. Semantic- oriented programming. A programming paradigm in which the programmer formulizes the logic of a domain by means of semantic structures
intellectual property
black box testing
SOP
SOAP
45. Wrote the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Test- driven development
Analysis...
Erich Gamma - Richard Helm - Ralph Johnson - John Vlissides
Maturity level
46. An effective method expressed as a finite list of well- defined instructions for solving a problem.
Specification
Algorithm
Refactoring
software quality
47. Testing where modules are combined and tested as a group
Integration testing
Maturity
brief use case
Programming style
48. 'single dot rule'
Law of demeter
Programming style
conflict
Functional Requirements
49. Contract between inventor - assignee and state giving a time and geographically limited monopoly
Lazy initialization or Lazy loading (Design pattern)
SOP
inappropriate intimacy
patent
50. Web Services Description Language. Used to create the XML document that describes the tasks performed by various web services.
Elicitation
Recovery testing
Maturity level
WSDL