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Software Engineering Vocab
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1. Degree to which the system meets the specified requirements and development standards
SOP
message chain
Integration testing
software quality
2. Test the run - time performance of the system
OOP
Dijkstra's law
SOP
Performance testing
3. How well your fulfil your requirements
Data classes
OOP
Software Quality
Requirements
4. A few sentences summarizing a use case
Refactoring
Design pattern
brief use case
Requirements
5. (smell) Making one change requires changes in multiple places
Decorator pattern
code quality
Acceptance testing
shotgun surgery
6. Testing that verifies that individual units of source code are working
unit testing
Casual use case
Large class
Feasibility
7. (smell) One class delegates all of its requests to another class
OOP
Cowboy coding
middle man
Liskov substitution principle
8. 'single dot rule'
comments
Performance testing
intellectual property
Law of demeter
9. (smell) A class whose only purpose is to hold data
Parser
Data classes
use case
Feasibility
10. The process of eliminating data redundancy by ensuring that tables in a database pertain to a single topic
Erich Gamma - Richard Helm - Ralph Johnson - John Vlissides
Casual use case
Database normalization
Analysis...
11. Web Services Description Language. Used to create the XML document that describes the tasks performed by various web services.
feature envy
Usability testing
Validation
WSDL
12. (smell)class with too many instance variables or too much code
WSDL
Design
Large class
SOP
13. Verifies that system is protected against improper penetration
Lexer
model- driven development
Security testing
intellectual property
14. Force software to fail in order to see how it recovers
Recovery testing
architectural design
Anonymous function
Liskov substitution principle
15. Word - logo or symbol used to distinguish one organization's wares and services from another's
Data classes
trademark
Cowboy coding
Programming syntax
16. The rights governing the ownership and disposition of technology
branch
shotgun surgery
intellectual property
Analysis...
17. Formal testing against end user specifications
Casual use case
REST
Stakeholders
Acceptance testing
18. (smell) many parameters are being passed into a method
Programming style
Feasibility
long parameter list
Algorithm
19. Single step in a lifecycle
comments
Requirements
Phase
technical managerial approach
20. Executes system in a manner that demands abnormal amounts of resources
Quality metrics
Stress testing
SOAP
Law of demeter
21. Each line of code is covered once
statement
Quality metrics
code smell
regression testing
22. AKA: Function Constant or Function Literal A function defined - and possibly called - without being bound to an identifier.
Anonymous function
Database normalization
Programming style
architectural design
23. Part of compiler reads the sequence of characters and outputs a sequence of lexemes.
Law of demeter
Dijkstra's law
Lexer
black box testing
24. A relationship between objects.
code smell
inappropriate intimacy
white box testing
Association
25. (smell) A method using another class more than its own
Law of demeter
duplicated code
feature- driven development
feature envy
26. 3rd step of requirements gathering
Data classes
Specification
Parser
Lambda
27. A way to automatically grade code based on heuristics
technical managerial approach
Quality metrics
Lexer
REST
28. Reusable - abstract 'blocks' of design
Design Patterns
Delegation
Scrum (Agile software development)
sequence diagram
29. Developing a plan for a product - system or component. 'how' a system should perform a task
Design
Programming syntax
Recovery testing
Parser
30. Testing can show the presence but not absence of errors
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31. Derived methods should not assume more or deliver less
trademark
Maturity level
Liskov substitution principle
software quality
32. Diagram outlining the tasks that are going to be performed by the user
Design
SRS Documentation
Use case diagram
unit testing
33. A subjective set of rules or guidelines used when writing source code. Example: The use of whitespace to consistently group and space out statements.
Functional Requirements
Code Quality
architectural design
Programming style
34. An effective method expressed as a finite list of well- defined instructions for solving a problem.
duplicated code
Algorithm
Semantic Web
branch
35. Testing where modules are combined and tested as a group
conflict
Data classes
Integration testing
feature envy
36. 1st step of requirements gathering
WSDL
Functional Requirements
Analysis...
Elicitation
37. Diagram used to show how information flows around the system
long parameter list
Design
data clumps
sequence diagram
38. (smell) code is repeated in multiple places
unit testing
Test- driven development
duplicated code
Cowboy coding
39. Contract between inventor - assignee and state giving a time and geographically limited monopoly
patent
Fully- dressed use case
white box testing
brief use case
40. Testing tactic based on whether inputs and outputs match up for required functionality
duplicated code
sequence diagram
black box testing
Use case diagram
41. A powerful motivator for change
conflict
Performance testing
Semantic Web
Association
42. The process of attempting to optimise the read performance of a database by adding redundant data or by grouping data
Liskov substitution principle
Denormalization
patent
REST
43. Description of possible sequences of interactions between a user and the system.
Analysis...
technical managerial approach
use case
Lexer
44. Test cases made -> code compiles -> make code pass
Test- driven development
use case
sequence diagram
Elicitation
45. Formal document outlining a task that needs to be performed on a system
Fully- dressed use case
Lexer
conflict
Functional Requirements
46. Iterative - incremental framework for project management.
Delegation
Quality metrics
Scrum (Agile software development)
Stress testing
47. A movement that promotes common formats for data.
use case
REST
Refactoring
Semantic Web
48. (smell) method has too many statements - loops or variables
long method
branch
Database normalization
Refactoring
49. Protecting the embodiment of an idea
Lexer
copyright
First- class citizen
Usability testing
50. Recognizable indicator that something may be wrong with code
shotgun surgery
code smell
branch
Acceptance testing
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