Code No: RR311201 Set No.

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III B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
(Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Describe the elements of concurrent process model. [16]

2. Explain how the product and process are related. [16]

3. Explain the different activities to be carried out in the requirements analysis phase
and explain the importance of each activity in the process. [16]

4. (a) Explain briefly various requirement analysis methods. [8]

(b) Describe the difference between an Object used in OOA and an Object used
in Data Modeling. [8]

5. Consider the interactive application of Library management system and develop a

design model and a user model. [16]

6. (a) Write short notes on user interface implementation tools. [8]

(b) State and explain some guidelines that focus on Information display in User
Interface Design. [8]

7. Describe software maintenance activities and discuss about re-engineering. [16]

8. (a) Why is completeness more difficult to achieve as abstraction level increases?

(b) Why interactivity must increase if completeness is to increase?
(c) Explain the differences between restructuring and forward engineering.[5+5+6]

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Code No: RR311201 Set No. 2
III B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
(Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. What is Computer Software? Why is it important? Explain the impact of software

on our society and culture. [16]

2. Explain the software project metrics with a real time example. [16]

3. What is meant by software prototyping? Describe the advantages and disadvan-

tages of using software prototyping for analysis. Give an example situation in which
you would recommend the use of prototyping for analysis. [16]

4. (a) What is Warnier-Orr diagram? And explain with an example how it is different
from Warnier diagram. [8]
(b) Explain with an example the Entity structure step and the Entity action step
in Jackson System Development (JSD). [8]

5. Consider the interactive application of Library management system and develop a

design model and a user model. [16]

6. (a) Explain how human perception will have influence on user interface design?
[8]
(b) State and explain the generic tasks that always performed in user interface
design. [8]

7. Describe software maintenance activities and discuss about re-engineering. [16]

8. Discuss in detail about a software re-engineering process model. [16]

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Code No: RR311201 Set No. 3
III B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
(Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Choose an application of your own and [8]

i. Indicate the Software application category into which it fits.
(b) The data content associated with the application. [8]

2. Explain the need for measuring the correctness and integrity for software. [16]

3. Write different steps in Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) approach proposed by

Coad and Yourdon and explain them clearly. [16]

4. (a) “Data Modeling can be viewed as a subset of OOA”. comment on this state-
ment and justify your comments. [8]
(b) “Object Oriented Analysis is radically different from the conventional Struc-
tured analysis approach”, common on this statement. [8]

5. What is PDL? Explain with an example how PDL is used to specify program
components? [16]

6. (a) Explain the object oriented design methods. How do you identify classes and
objects? [8]
(b) How do you refine the operation after identification of objects. [8]

7. (a) Explain unit testing, system testing and integration testing. Also explain how
they can be used with black box and white box testing? [8]
(b) What is cyclomatic complexity?. How it is used in test case generation? Ex-
plain with an example. [8]

8. Discuss in detail about a software re-engineering process model. [16]

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Code No: RR311201 Set No. 4
III B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
(Information Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Write short notes on

(a) Engineering and Scientific Software. [4]

(b) Web based Software. [4]
(c) Embedded Software. [4]
(d) Business Software. [4]

2. Explain the software project metrics with a real time example. [16]

3. What is the goal of requirements analysis phase? Give reasons why the requirements
analysis phase is a difficult one. [16]

4. (a) What are Entity-Relationship (E-R) diagrams? How E-R notation is useful
for data modeling? [8]
(b) What are the common characteristics and differences in different requirement
analysis techniques? [8]

5. What is PDL? Explain with an example how PDL is used to specify program
components? [16]

6. (a) State and explain user interface evaluation cycle. [8]

(b) Write short notes on the Interface Standards. [8]

7. Explain in detail the graph-based testing methods. [16]

8. Discuss in detail about a software re-engineering process model. [16]

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