Wednesday, September 4, 2013

BCA 501 : SOFTWARE ENGINEERING OCT/NOV 2011 QUESTION PAPER

                             V SEMESTER B.C.A. EXAMINATION OCT/NOV  2011
                                                               Y2K8  SCHEME
                                                       COMPUTER SCIENCE
                                          BCA 501  : SOFTWARE ENGINEERING


Time : 3Hours                                                                            Max.Marsk: 90

Instruction : Answer all sections

SECTION-A

Answer  any ten questoins.Each question  carries two marks      10 X 2 = 20

1.Define software engineering.

2.Define system and subsystem.

3.Define Requirement  specification and  software specification.




4.What are the various activities of the requirement analysis process ?

5.What are the Objectives of using software  prototyping ?

6.What are the three main types of notations used in design document ?

7.Define Coupling?

8.What are the advantages of Graphical user Interface ?

9.Define fault avoidance, Fault tolerance and  Fault detection .

10.Define  error , fault and  failure.

11.Define validation and verification.

12.Define quality assurance.

SECTION-B

Answer any five questions.Each carries five marks.     5 X 5 =25

13.What is a software process.? what are the activites  involved in software process ?

14.What are functional and non functional requirement ? Explain the types of

    non-functional requirements.

15.What is the need  for validating the requirements ? Explain any requirement validation

    techniques .

16.Explain the basic design principles of problem partitioning and abstraction .

17,What are the Characteristics of Object  Oriented design ?

18, Give short notes on reliability metrices.

19.Briefly explain the different levels of testing.

20.Define Maintenance and explain the types of maintenance.

SECTION - C

Answer any three questions. Each question carries fifteen marks   3 X 15 = 45

21.a) Compare and contrast the three models namely waterfall ,spiral and iterative enhancement models.

b) give a short notes on the system procurement process.            8 + 7

22. a) Explain in detail the requirement engineering process diagramatically.

     b) Briefly explain the prototyping process comparing the two types of prototyping.       8 + 7

23.a) Give a detailed note of the design process.

     b)Describe the object oriented design in brief.       8 + 7

24. a)  Give a short notes on user interface design.

       b) What is software reuse ? What are the different aspects of software reuse ?
   
       c) Give a short notes on exception   handling .                             4 + 7 + 4

25. a) What is a test plan and explain the contents of test plan.

      b) Discuss the cocomo model in detail .                                    7 + 8 

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