Example questions for the exam on Software engineering

1. Software lifecycle: waterfall, incremental, spiral, rapid, agile development.
2. What is a model? What is modelling, software modelling?
3. Define UML. What UML diagrams are used for software modelling?
4. Use case diagram. Purpose. Definitions of actor, use case.
5. Define class, object, attribute, operation, class state, class behavior.
6. What makes a good class? Class responsibilities, cohesion, coupling.
7. Class diagram. Purpose, contents, types of relations between classes.
8. Interaction diagrams, purpose. Sequence diagram.
9. Statechart diagrams. Transitions between states. Draw an example. Events, guard conditions, actions.
10. Define testing and debugging. What can be tested? Automated and manual testing. Unit testing, integration testing.
11. Explain the MVC (model-view-controller) pattern.
12. Explain the SOA (service-oriented architecture) pattern.