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Software Engineering Vocab
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1. How well your fulfil your requirements
Code Quality
Software Quality
Database normalization
white box testing
2. Web Services Description Language. Used to create the XML document that describes the tasks performed by various web services.
Acceptance testing
Lexer
WSDL
Denormalization
3. Reusable - abstract 'blocks' of design
SOAP
Design pattern
unit testing
long parameter list
4. Description of possible sequences of interactions between a user and the system.
use case
Closure
Parser
jquery
5. Each team member given set of features to work on
Semantic Web
code quality
feature- driven development
Versioning
6. (smell) A method using another class more than its own
Security testing
architectural design
Usability testing
feature envy
7. An effective method expressed as a finite list of well- defined instructions for solving a problem.
patent
Refactoring
Algorithm
Lifecycle
8. A computer program that divides code up into functional components
Parser
Capacity testing
Validation
Elicitation
9. Evaluates upper limits of operational parameters
Dijkstra's law
architectural design
First- class citizen
Capacity testing
10. Lack of errors in code - readability etc
Maturity
shotgun surgery
Code Quality
Test- driven development
11. (smell) many parameters are being passed into a method
SRS Documentation
regression testing
a refactoring
long parameter list
12. Test whether or not tasks can be accomplished efficiently by all levels of users
Usability testing
Non - functional Requirements
Versioning
Closure
13. Testing can show the presence but not absence of errors
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14. (smell) code is repeated in multiple places
duplicated code
Fully- dressed use case
Acceptance testing
Large class
15. (smell)class with too many instance variables or too much code
Large class
Stakeholders
feature- driven development
long parameter list
16. (smell) If a set of variables are used together in multiple places
Elicitation
WSDL
SOP
data clumps
17. 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
model- driven development
Design patterns
Closure
copyright
18. Contract between inventor - assignee and state giving a time and geographically limited monopoly
Maturity level
software quality
unit testing
patent
19. An operator used to denote anonymous functions or closures.
Stress testing
Versioning
Liskov substitution principle
Lambda
20. 2nd step of requirements gathering
conflict
Semantic Web
Analysis...
Dijkstra's law
21. (smell) Smell deodorant
brief use case
comments
regression testing
Software Quality
22. Test cases made -> code compiles -> make code pass
trademark
code quality
Test- driven development
Lexer
23. Iterative - incremental framework for project management.
Scrum (Agile software development)
Cowboy coding
WSDL
Feasibility
24. Derived methods should not assume more or deliver less
model- driven development
use case
white box testing
Liskov substitution principle
25. The rigorousness of the tests that are able to be placed on the code
code quality
Maturity
copyright
Programming style
26. Verifies that system is protected against improper penetration
Usability testing
Design Patterns
Validation
Security testing
27. A way to automatically grade code based on heuristics
Quality metrics
Scrum (Agile software development)
statement
feature- driven development
28. Single step in a lifecycle
Lazy initialization or Lazy loading (Design pattern)
code smell
Maturity level
Phase
29. Degree to which the system meets the specified requirements and development standards
Erich Gamma - Richard Helm - Ralph Johnson - John Vlissides
Association
software quality
Specification
30. Constraints on the design due to external factors
Non - functional Requirements
Parser
Design patterns
Versioning
31. Freezing the state of the source code at a particular point
Association
Versioning
Stress testing
Integration testing
32. Formal document outlining a task that needs to be performed on a system
Liskov substitution principle
data clumps
jquery
Fully- dressed use case
33. Each condition is covered twice (true - false)
technical managerial approach
SOP
Code Quality
branch
34. Models ->code work is done to keep models in sync with code
SOP
Scrum (Agile software development)
copyright
model- driven development
35. A relationship between objects.
Association
technical managerial approach
Large class
Design
36. Test the run - time performance of the system
feature- driven development
Performance testing
Liskov substitution principle
Elicitation
37. (smell) Classes using things that should be private in other classes
inappropriate intimacy
branch
Code Quality
Design Patterns
38. The process of attempting to optimise the read performance of a database by adding redundant data or by grouping data
patent
Design Patterns
Acceptance testing
Denormalization
39. Testing tactic based on whether inputs and outputs match up for required functionality
Integration testing
inappropriate intimacy
black box testing
comments
40. Diagram outlining the tasks that are going to be performed by the user
Parser
Lazy initialization or Lazy loading (Design pattern)
Versioning
Use case diagram
41. Reusable - abstract 'blocks' of design
Design Patterns
use case
technical managerial approach
Specification
42. Recognizable indicator that something may be wrong with code
statement
Liskov substitution principle
code smell
long parameter list
43. Small - behaviour- preserving - source- to- source transformation
a refactoring
statement
Liskov substitution principle
trademark
44. The things a system must do
Requirements
Refactoring
SOAP
branch
45. A subjective set of rules or guidelines used when writing source code. Example: The use of whitespace to consistently group and space out statements.
Cowboy coding
Programming style
statement
Elicitation
46. Series of phases through which software is developed
Recovery testing
Acceptance testing
Lifecycle
brief use case
47. 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
Recovery testing
patent
Code Quality
Delegation
48. Approach to team management that splits management up into two people with separate tasks
technical managerial approach
Decorator pattern
Analysis...
Programming syntax
49. Tasks that a system must be able to perform
Elicitation
shotgun surgery
Parser
Functional Requirements
50. (smell) method has too many statements - loops or variables
SRS Documentation
WSDL
long method
message chain
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