Anna University Coimbatore 2011 B.Tech Information Technology Software engineering and quality assurance - Question Paper

ANNA UNIVERSITY COIMBATORE
B.E./B.TECH. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS: MAY/JUNE 2010
REGULATIONS: 2008
FOURTH SEMESTER: info TECHNOLOGY
080250013-SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
TIME: three Hours Max.Marks:100
PART-A
(20 x 2=40 MARKS)
ans ALL ques.
1. What does a system engineering model accomplish?
2. Differentiate ranging from verification and validation.
3. Define Software engineering
4. How does 'Project Risk" factor affect the spiral model of software development?
5. Compare the product engineering and process engineering.
6. Identify ambiguities and omissions in the functional requirements, what ques. would you ask to clarify these functional requirements.
7. How to choose the improper prototyping approach?
8. What is data dictionary? Where it is used in software engineering?
9. What do you mean by horizontal and vertical partitioning?
10. Brief the importance of user interface.
11. Justify the term: "Design is not coding and coding is not design".
12. State the guidance for modular design.
13. Why testing is important with respect to software?
14. How regression and stress tests are performed?
15. What is cyclomatic complexity? How to compute this?
16. When do you stop testing? Justify your ans with 2 illustrations.
17. Define SQA.
18. What are the parameters used for software configurations?
19. What is the need for SCM?
20. Define the term product quality.

PART - B
(5 x 12 = 60 MARKS)
ans ANY 5 ques.
21. a) discuss the system engineering concepts and briefly define on product engineering.
b) Compare and contrast the Waterfall model with spiral model.
22. a) elaborate the necessities of life cycle model? what are on the different problems of softwar3e life cycle.
b) Write short notes on data modeling.
23. a) Draw an ER diagram for the relationship of manufacturer and dealership. Also specify the association, cardinality and modality.
b) What is requirement engineering? State its process and discuss requirement elicitation issue.
24. a) Briefly discuss the different design concepts considered during design.
b) Write notes on real time executives.
25. a) discuss the various integration testing approaches.
b) Distinguish ranging from black box and white box testing
26. a) Why unit testing is so important? discuss the concept of unit testing in detail.
b) discuss the regression testing.
27. a) How to derive the test cases for the provided project? discuss with an example.
b) State the guidelines for debugging.
28. Explain the subsequent in detail.
a) Software Configuration Management
b) Software Quality Planning and control.

Earning:   Approval pending.