CS 319 -
Object-Oriented Software Engineering

Instructor:
Dr. Bedir Tekinerdoğan

Midterm Exam Guidelines

The midterm exam covers the topics of chapter 1 to chapter 5 of the textbook.

You should be able to answer, among others, the following questions:

General Process - Engineering

• What is engineering?

• What is software engineering?

• What are key principles in software engineering?

• What is a stakeholder?

• Why are stakeholders important?

• What is a workproduct, activity, task, resource?

• What is modeling, what is a model?

• What is UML?

• What was the situation before UML wrt (a) modeling languages (b) tool support?

• What is a software life cycle?

• What are the key activities in software development (according to textbook)

• What are the relations among these activities?

• What are the deliverables for each activity?

• What are the relationships among the deliverables?

Requirements Analysis

• What is application domain?

• What is solution domain?

• Which activities analyze and model the application domain?

• Which activities analyze and model the solution domain?

• What is requirements analysis? What is its goal?

• What are the steps in requirements analysis?

• What is a problem statement? Who defines the problem statement?

• What are the deliverables of a requirements analysis activity?

• What are functional requirements?

• What are non-functional requirements?

• What are constraints (pseudo-requirements)?

• Can you give examples of functional, nonfunctional, pseudo requirements?

• What are domain requirements?

• What are the requirements elicitation practices?

• What are textual requirements?

• What is a scenario?

• What are the types of scenarios?

• How to derive scenarios?

• What is requirements validation? Why is it important?

• What is a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document?

• What are the characteristics of a good SRS?

• What is a use case?

• What is an actor?

• How to identify/find use cases? How to find actors?

• What is the relation between an actor in a use case model and stakeholder?

• What is the relation between an actor and a physical entity?

• What is a use case model?

• What is a use case diagram?

• How to represent use case model textually?

• What do we do with stakeholders of the system who are not assigned as actors in the use case model?

• Can we represent non-functional requirements in a use case model? If not, how to represent these functional-requirements?

• What are use case associations?

• What are the <<include>>, <<extend>>, generalization relations? When and how to apply these?

• What is a template for a use case model?

Analysis - Object Modeling

• What is the role of the Analysis activity?

• What are the sub-activities, what are the relations?

• What are the deliverables, what are the relations?

• What is a static model?

• What is a dynamic model?

• What is an object?

• What is a class?

• What is an abstraction?

• What are the key abstractions in structured software development and object-oriented software development?

• What is concept? What is phenomenon? What are the relations to class and object?

• How to model classes?

• How to model objects?

• What is a class diagram?

• Why does OO lower ‘representational gap’ with real world concepts?

• What is an association relation? How to model this?

• What is aggregation relation? How to model this? What is the special composition relation?

• What is association relation? How to model this?

• What is generalization relation? How to model this?

• What is an abstract class? What is a concrete class? How to model these?

• What is realization relation? How to model this?

• What is an association class? When to use this?

• How to implement an association, aggregation, generalization relation?

• What are class identification approaches? Can you compare these?

• What is domain analysis, domain modeling?

• How to identify classes from use case model?

• How to identify classes from domain analysis?

• What is the role of the analyst?

Analysis - Dynamic Modeling

• What are the steps in dynamic modeling?

• What are the artefacts in dynamic modeling? How do they relate to each other, and to artefacts in requirements analysis?

• What is a sequence diagram?

• How to represent objects in sequence diagram?

• What is an actor, message, activiation, lifeline in a sequence diagram? How to represent these?

• What is a synchronous message? What is an asynchronous message? How to represent these in sequence diagram?

• How to represent condition in sequence diagram?

• How to represent iteration in sequence diagram?

• How to represent creation and destruction in sequence diagram?

• How to implement a sequence diagram?

• What is a collaboration diagram? What is the relation with sequence diagram? How to model it?

• What is a state diagram? How to model it?

• What are different types of states (initial, final, nested, etc). ?

• What are states, events, transitions in a state diagram?

• How to identify objects from sequence diagram?

• What is an activity diagram? How to model it?

• What are CRC cards?

• When are they used?

• How are they used?