Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management 2008 B.E SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Question Paper

The Institution of Engineers (India) University ques. Paper

Subject: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Time: three Hours Max. Marks: 100

NOTE: There are nine ques. in all.
• ques. one is compulsory and carries 20 marks.

• Out of the remaining 8 ques. ans any 5 ques.. every ques. carries 16 marks.
• Any needed data not explicitly given, may be suitably presumed and said.


Q.1 select the accurate or best option in the following: (2x10)

a. When software should not make wasteful use of system resources such as memory and processor cycles, this is known as

(A) Software validation (B) Software testing
(C) Efficiency (D) Software maintenance

b. In developing an S/W system, the most expensive key attribute to find a well engineered S/W is

(A) improper user interface (B) Efficiency
(C) Reliability (D) None of the above

c. A kind of evolutionary development where the objective of the process is to understand the customer’s requirements is known as

(A) Throw-away prototyping (B) Software reuse
(C) Exploratory programming (D) Software process

d. When the S/W process evolves to reflect changed organizational requirements or identified process improvements, this is known as

(A) Robustness (B) Maintainability
(C) fault recovering (D) None of the above

e. A timing constraint placed on the system or the use of a specific language during development, this is example of

(A) Functional requirements (B) Requirements definition
(C) Non functional requirements (D) Functional decomposition

f. The process of establishing the services the system should give and the constraints under which it must operate is called

(A) Requirements definition. (B) Non functional requirements.
(C) Requirements engineering. (D) None of the above.

g. State transition diagrams may be used to show how the system reacts to internal and external events, this occurs at

(A) A composition model. (B) A data-processing model.
(C) A stimulus-response model. (D) A entity relationship model.
h. Models which are used to represent both system data and its processing are known as

(A) Inheritance models (B) Relational models
(C) Object models (D) None of the above

i. The design model, which is based on info hiding, is

(A) ERD model. (B) Client-Server model.
(C) DFD model. (D) Network model.

j. The longest software life-cycle phase is

(A) Implementation and testing. (B) Operation and maintenance.
(C) Software design. (D) None of the above.


ans any 5 ques. out of 8 ques..
every ques. carries 16 marks.

Q.2 a. What do you mean by software crisis? elaborate the factors that contributed to the modifications in pattern in software engineering? (10)

b. elaborate the reasons for increasing of software cost? (3)

c. explain the concept and approach of software engineering. (3)

Q.3 a. describe prototyping model. List and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of prototyping. (10)

b. explain the project management activities in details. (6)

Q.4 a. discuss the goal of configuration management. (6)

b. discuss software requirement specification and how it can be established ranging from developer and user? (8 )

c. A software project needed 236 person-months of development effort and it was estimated that 15% of the code would be replaced in a typical year. compute the basic maintenance effort estimation. (2)

Q.5 a. discuss the Characteristics & Components of SRS. (8 )

b. provide the tech. ideas of Bottom-Up design and Top-Down design. (8 )

Q.6 a. How software metrics is involved in software development and management? (10)

b. What is object oriented programming? discuss in terms of software engineering. (6)

Q.7 a. What do you mean by Testing? explain the level of testing and role of Verification and Validation. (8 )

b. What do you mean by symbolic execution and advantages of it? (6)

c. explain the use of Earned Value’s in Estimating Cost and Schedule. (2)

Q.8 Write short notes on any 2 of the following:

(i) Inspection and review.
(ii) Software Quality Assurance.
(iii) Robustness & correctness. (2 x eight )

Q.9 a. List and define the various kind of software maintenance. (8 )

b. explain the tech. factors involved during the cost estimation of maintenance. (8 )

Earning:   Approval pending.