West Virginia University
CS 430 Advanced Software Engineering
Spring 2012
(Test is due in Class on Thursday, April 5, 2012)
For each question below, I am indicating the chapter in the textbook in which you
can find the answer (Roger S. Pressman, “Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s
Approach,” 7th edition, McGraw Hill, 2010. If you have the 6th edition of the book,
compare chapter outlines at http://www.rspa.com/sepa7e.html and
http://www.rspa.com/about/sepa.html)
Chapter 1:
1. Explain what is wrong with the notion that computer software does not need to
evolve over time.
Chapter 2:
2. Why are evolutionary models considered by many to be better software
development in a modern context?
Chapter 2:
3. Describe the phases of the prototyping model for software development?
Chapter 3:.
4. List the key issues stressed by an agile philosophy of software engineering.
Chapter 3:
5. What are the tradeoffs proposes by the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”?
Chapter 3:
6. Describe the role of customers and end-users on an agile process team?
Chapter 5:
7. What are the benefits of using analysis patterns during the analysis modeling
process?
