Int4matx quiz 2

Which one of the following statements about requirements is false?

The requirements phase is the most costly phase in the software life cycle, in terms of dollars spent.

Which one of the following statements most naturally flows (follows) from Ziv's Law?

Assume that requirements document will have to change at some point.

Which of the following statements most naturally follows from Ziv's Law?

Assume that the requirements document will have to change at some point.

According to our charts, which of the follow activities/phases of the software lifecycle takes up the most overall effort and time?

Software maintenance

Use cases...

Are framed in terms of user goals and flows of events.

Use Case Template

-name/title -description -revision history -actors -system scope -goal -level -assumptions -relationships (includes, excludes, extension points) -precondition -trigger events

Ziv's Law

-software development is unpredictable and the documented artifacts such as requirements will never be fully understood. -uncertainty is inherent and inevitable in SE processes and products!

Which one of the following statements is true about use cases?

An actor in a use case diagram can be an external system with which the system under development interacts.

Which one of the following statements is not true?

Use cases can be used to specify all of the requirements for a system.

If you go into a career in software engineering in the US, which one of the following situations is most likely for you?

Working in the IT department of a company, writing software for "customers" who are also part of that same company.