Fall 2003
Study required for the
Final Exam
The final exam will be a comprehensive, 105-minutes (1 hour
and 45 minutes) closed-book exam (no supporting material is allowed). It will
take place on
For this final exam, you are required to study the textbook,
the presentations, the class notes (“chalk notes”), your homework (assignments,
project), and additional material provided by the instructor via the course’s
web-page, all related to the following chapters of [Somm00]:
Chapter 3 Software processes
Chapter 4 Project management
Chapter 5 Software requirements
Chapter 6 Requirements engineering processes
Chapter 7 System models
Chapter 10 Architectural design
Chapter 15 User interface design
Chapter 20 Software testing
Chapter 22 Managing people
Chapter 26 Legacy systems
Chapter 27 Software change
From the above, the following sections or sub-sections are not
required:
Subsection 3.7 Automated process support
Subsection 4.4.4 Risk monitoring
Section 5.4 The software requirements document
Subsection 6.2.1 Viewpoint-oriented
elicitation (the beginning of Section 6.2 is required)
Subsection 6.2.3 Ethnography
Subsection 6.4.3 Requirements
change maangement
Section 7.5 CASE workbenches
Subsection 10.4 Domain
specific architectures
Section 20.4 Testing
workbenches
Section 22.4 The People
Capability Maturity Model
Section 27.1 Program evolution dynamics
Section 27.3 Architectural evolution