The document discusses coding guidelines and best practices for software development. It covers topics like coding standards, programming practices, documentation, and code verification techniques. The key points are that coding follows design, modules should be independently coded and tested, documentation is important, and reviews/testing help verify code quality.
The document discusses various topics related to software testing including:
1. Software testing helps improve software quality by testing conformance to requirements and is important to uncover errors before delivery to customers.
2. Testing involves specialists at different stages from early development through delivery and includes unit testing of individual components, integration testing of combined components, and system testing of the full system.
3. Proper testing methods include black box testing of inputs/outputs, white box testing of code structures, and testing at different levels from units to full system as well as by independent third parties.
This document provides an overview of quality management in software engineering. It discusses software quality, standards, reviews and inspections, as well as software measurement and metrics. The key points covered include establishing an organizational framework for quality management, applying specific quality processes and standards at the project level, and conducting independent reviews to ensure compliance. Software metrics can help quantify attributes and identify anomalous components, but meaningful relationships between internal metrics and external quality attributes can be difficult to establish.
Defining the Problem - Goals and requirementsStephennancy
This document discusses goals and requirements in software engineering projects. It makes the following key points:
- Goals define targets for both the development process and final work products, and can be qualitative or quantitative. Examples of each type are given.
- Requirements specify the capabilities needed to solve the problem, and include functional, performance, and interface requirements. They provide standards for the project and product.
- Both goals and requirements should be specified quantitatively when possible to avoid later misunderstandings, though this can be difficult in the planning phase. Methods for verification should also be defined.
- High-level goals can be translated into specific requirements related to quality attributes like reliability. Milestones can quantify goals
This document discusses software coding standards and testing. It includes four lessons:
Lesson One discusses coding standards, which define programming style through rules for formatting source code. Coding standards help make code more readable, maintainable, and reduce costs. Common aspects of coding standards include naming conventions and formatting.
Lesson Two discusses software testing strategies and principles. Testing strategies provide a plan for defining the testing approach. Common strategies include analytic, model-based, and methodical testing. Key principles of testing include showing presence of defects, early testing, and that exhaustive testing is impossible.
Lesson Three discusses software testing approaches and types but does not provide details.
Lesson Four discusses alpha and beta testing as
This document discusses 15 factors that influence quality and productivity in software development processes: individual ability, team communication, product complexity, appropriate notations, systematic approaches, change control, level of technology, level of reliability, problem understanding, available time, required skills, facilities and resources, adequacy of training, management skills, and appropriate goals. Each factor is described in 1-3 paragraphs on how it can impact quality and productivity.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
This document discusses agile software development. It begins with an agenda covering agile software development, the agile manifesto, what agility means, how agility reduces the cost of change, agile processes, and agile principles. It then defines agility as effectively responding to and communicating about change. An agile process is described as being driven by customer requirements, developing software iteratively, and delivering software increments while adapting to changes. The document concludes with 12 agile principles including satisfying customers, welcoming changing requirements, frequent delivery of working software, and continuous improvement.
The document discusses various topics related to software testing including:
1. Software testing helps improve software quality by testing conformance to requirements and is important to uncover errors before delivery to customers.
2. Testing involves specialists at different stages from early development through delivery and includes unit testing of individual components, integration testing of combined components, and system testing of the full system.
3. Proper testing methods include black box testing of inputs/outputs, white box testing of code structures, and testing at different levels from units to full system as well as by independent third parties.
This document provides an overview of quality management in software engineering. It discusses software quality, standards, reviews and inspections, as well as software measurement and metrics. The key points covered include establishing an organizational framework for quality management, applying specific quality processes and standards at the project level, and conducting independent reviews to ensure compliance. Software metrics can help quantify attributes and identify anomalous components, but meaningful relationships between internal metrics and external quality attributes can be difficult to establish.
Defining the Problem - Goals and requirementsStephennancy
This document discusses goals and requirements in software engineering projects. It makes the following key points:
- Goals define targets for both the development process and final work products, and can be qualitative or quantitative. Examples of each type are given.
- Requirements specify the capabilities needed to solve the problem, and include functional, performance, and interface requirements. They provide standards for the project and product.
- Both goals and requirements should be specified quantitatively when possible to avoid later misunderstandings, though this can be difficult in the planning phase. Methods for verification should also be defined.
- High-level goals can be translated into specific requirements related to quality attributes like reliability. Milestones can quantify goals
This document discusses software coding standards and testing. It includes four lessons:
Lesson One discusses coding standards, which define programming style through rules for formatting source code. Coding standards help make code more readable, maintainable, and reduce costs. Common aspects of coding standards include naming conventions and formatting.
Lesson Two discusses software testing strategies and principles. Testing strategies provide a plan for defining the testing approach. Common strategies include analytic, model-based, and methodical testing. Key principles of testing include showing presence of defects, early testing, and that exhaustive testing is impossible.
Lesson Three discusses software testing approaches and types but does not provide details.
Lesson Four discusses alpha and beta testing as
This document discusses 15 factors that influence quality and productivity in software development processes: individual ability, team communication, product complexity, appropriate notations, systematic approaches, change control, level of technology, level of reliability, problem understanding, available time, required skills, facilities and resources, adequacy of training, management skills, and appropriate goals. Each factor is described in 1-3 paragraphs on how it can impact quality and productivity.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
This document discusses agile software development. It begins with an agenda covering agile software development, the agile manifesto, what agility means, how agility reduces the cost of change, agile processes, and agile principles. It then defines agility as effectively responding to and communicating about change. An agile process is described as being driven by customer requirements, developing software iteratively, and delivering software increments while adapting to changes. The document concludes with 12 agile principles including satisfying customers, welcoming changing requirements, frequent delivery of working software, and continuous improvement.
This document discusses various techniques for estimating software costs:
1. Expert judgment relies on experienced people's assessments but can be unreliable due to biases. The Delphi technique improves expert judgment by anonymously aggregating estimates over multiple rounds.
2. Work breakdown structures break projects down into components to estimate costs bottom-up. The COCOMO model also estimates bottom-up using algorithmic formulas adjusted by multipliers for attributes.
3. COCOMO is demonstrated through an example estimating effort of 191 person-months and a 13 month schedule for a 30,000 line embedded software project with high reliability requirements.
The document discusses software quality assurance. It defines SQA as using planned and systematic methods to evaluate software quality, standards, processes, and procedures. This ensures development follows standards and procedures through continuous monitoring, product evaluation, and audits. SQA activities include product evaluation and monitoring to ensure adherence to development plans, as well as product audits to thoroughly review products, processes, and documentation against established standards. Software reviews are used to uncover errors and defects during development in order to "purify" software requirements, design, code, and testing data before release.
This document discusses software coding standards and guidelines. It explains that coding standards provide rules for writing consistent, robust code that is easily understood. Coding transforms a system design into code and tests the code. Standards help ensure maintainability, adding new features, clean coding, and fewer errors. The document provides examples of coding standards like limiting global variables and naming conventions. It also discusses code reviews to find logical errors and oversights, as well as the importance of documentation for requirements, architecture, code, manuals, and marketing.
The document discusses various programming languages and program development tools. It differentiates between low-level languages like machine language and assembly language, and high-level procedural languages like C and COBOL. It also covers object-oriented languages like Java, C++, and C#, visual programming languages, and fourth generation languages (4GLs) like SQL. The document also lists the six common steps in program development and describes the basic control structures of sequence, selection, and repetition used in programming.
The document provides an overview of software testing techniques and strategies. It discusses unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing, and debugging. The key points covered include:
- Unit testing involves testing individual software modules or components in isolation from the rest of the system. This includes testing module interfaces, data structures, boundary conditions, and error handling paths.
- Integration testing combines software components into clusters or builds to test their interactions before full system integration. Approaches include top-down and bottom-up integration.
- Validation testing verifies that the software meets the intended requirements and customer expectations defined in validation criteria.
- System testing evaluates the fully integrated software system, including recovery, security, stress,
This document discusses different types of programming languages including machine language, assembly language, and high-level languages. It explains that machine language is directly understood by computers using binary, while assembly language uses symbols translated by an assembler. High-level languages like COBOL, FORTRAN and BASIC are easier for humans to read and are compiled into machine language. Compilers translate entire high-level programs at once, while interpreters translate and execute one statement at a time.
The document discusses software testing concepts like verification, validation, whitebox testing, and blackbox testing. Verification ensures the product satisfies specifications, while validation ensures it meets customer requirements. Whitebox testing uses internal knowledge to test code, while blackbox testing treats the system as a black box without internal knowledge. The document also covers different types of testing like unit, integration, and functional testing.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
The document discusses various software process models including prescriptive models like waterfall model and incremental process model. It also covers evolutionary models like prototyping and spiral process model. Specialized models covered are component based development, formal methods model, aspect oriented development and unified process model. The key highlights are that different models are suited for different situations based on project needs and each model has advantages and disadvantages to consider.
The document discusses the iterative software development process (SDP). It describes the main stages as analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, evaluation, and maintenance. At each stage, specific tasks are undertaken, such as creating requirements in analysis, designing algorithms and diagrams in design, coding in implementation, testing in testing, creating user guides in documentation, and fixing bugs in maintenance. People involved include clients, analysts, project managers, and programmers. Documents created include specifications, algorithms, test reports, guides, and evaluation/maintenance reports.
This lecture provide a review of requirement engineering process. The slides have been prepared after reading Ian Summerville and Roger Pressman work. This lecture is helpful to understand user, and user requirements.
This document discusses different types of software metrics including process, product, and project metrics. It defines metrics as quantitative measures of attributes and discusses how they can be used as indicators to improve processes and projects. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process over long periods of time. Product metrics measure attributes of the software at different stages. Project metrics are used to monitor and control projects. The document also discusses size-oriented and function-oriented metrics for normalization and comparison purposes. It provides examples of calculating function points and deriving metrics like errors per function point.
Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Also to assess the feature of A software item. Testing assesses the quality of the product. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words software testing is a verification and validation process.
Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects).
Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program/application/product:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• works as expected,
• can be implemented with the same characteristics,
• and satisfies the needs of stakeholders.
Software Development Process Cycle:-
PLAN (P): Device a plan. Define your objective and determine the strategy and supporting methods required to achieve that objective.
DO (D): Execute the plan. Create the conditions and perform the necessary training to execute the plan.
CHECK (C): Check the results. Check to determine whether work is progressing according to the plan and whether the results are obtained.
ACTION (A): Take the necessary and appropriate action if checkup reveals that the work is not being performed according to plan or not as anticipated.
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Levels of Software Testing
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SWE-401 - 1. Introduction to Software Engineeringghayour abbas
Software engineering is the application of engineering principles to the development of software. It involves systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to develop, operate, and maintain software. The goal of software engineering is to produce reliable and efficient software products. Some key aspects of software engineering include requirements gathering, design, programming, testing, and maintenance. Software engineering principles are important for developing large, complex software in a cost-effective manner that can scale and adapt to changing needs over time.
The document discusses several common software development myths. It is written by a group of 7 software engineers. The myths discussed include: 1) that clients know exactly what they want, 2) that requirements are fixed, 3) that quality can't be assessed until a program is running, 4) that adding more people fixes schedule slips, 5) that security is only a cryptography problem, 6) that a tester's only task is to find bugs, 7) that testing can't begin until development is fully complete, and 8) that network defenses alone can provide protection. The document aims to dispel these myths and provide more accurate perspectives.
This document defines key concepts related to quality in software engineering, including definitions of quality, software quality, and several quality factor frameworks. It discusses Garvin's quality dimensions, McCall's quality factors, ISO 9126 quality factors, and targeted quality factors. The document also covers concepts like good enough software and the cost of quality.
Coding is new literacy and you shouldn't miss the chance to learn to code. Not only you but your children should learn to code. Learn more about coding in a fun and easy way with RoboGarden.
RoboGarden is an easy to understand, hands-on educational app where students take part in active learning. Fully equipped to teach coding literacy from scratch, RoboGarden reduces the need for a tech-savvy teacher.
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Coding for Teachers and Kids Workshop PresentationJoanne Villis
Coding for kids and teachers. How to make this a shared process. This is a presentation which I delivered at a conference. Notes are very brief. The main focus of the session was for teachers to have hands on time tinkering (playing).
This document discusses various techniques for estimating software costs:
1. Expert judgment relies on experienced people's assessments but can be unreliable due to biases. The Delphi technique improves expert judgment by anonymously aggregating estimates over multiple rounds.
2. Work breakdown structures break projects down into components to estimate costs bottom-up. The COCOMO model also estimates bottom-up using algorithmic formulas adjusted by multipliers for attributes.
3. COCOMO is demonstrated through an example estimating effort of 191 person-months and a 13 month schedule for a 30,000 line embedded software project with high reliability requirements.
The document discusses software quality assurance. It defines SQA as using planned and systematic methods to evaluate software quality, standards, processes, and procedures. This ensures development follows standards and procedures through continuous monitoring, product evaluation, and audits. SQA activities include product evaluation and monitoring to ensure adherence to development plans, as well as product audits to thoroughly review products, processes, and documentation against established standards. Software reviews are used to uncover errors and defects during development in order to "purify" software requirements, design, code, and testing data before release.
This document discusses software coding standards and guidelines. It explains that coding standards provide rules for writing consistent, robust code that is easily understood. Coding transforms a system design into code and tests the code. Standards help ensure maintainability, adding new features, clean coding, and fewer errors. The document provides examples of coding standards like limiting global variables and naming conventions. It also discusses code reviews to find logical errors and oversights, as well as the importance of documentation for requirements, architecture, code, manuals, and marketing.
The document discusses various programming languages and program development tools. It differentiates between low-level languages like machine language and assembly language, and high-level procedural languages like C and COBOL. It also covers object-oriented languages like Java, C++, and C#, visual programming languages, and fourth generation languages (4GLs) like SQL. The document also lists the six common steps in program development and describes the basic control structures of sequence, selection, and repetition used in programming.
The document provides an overview of software testing techniques and strategies. It discusses unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing, and debugging. The key points covered include:
- Unit testing involves testing individual software modules or components in isolation from the rest of the system. This includes testing module interfaces, data structures, boundary conditions, and error handling paths.
- Integration testing combines software components into clusters or builds to test their interactions before full system integration. Approaches include top-down and bottom-up integration.
- Validation testing verifies that the software meets the intended requirements and customer expectations defined in validation criteria.
- System testing evaluates the fully integrated software system, including recovery, security, stress,
This document discusses different types of programming languages including machine language, assembly language, and high-level languages. It explains that machine language is directly understood by computers using binary, while assembly language uses symbols translated by an assembler. High-level languages like COBOL, FORTRAN and BASIC are easier for humans to read and are compiled into machine language. Compilers translate entire high-level programs at once, while interpreters translate and execute one statement at a time.
The document discusses software testing concepts like verification, validation, whitebox testing, and blackbox testing. Verification ensures the product satisfies specifications, while validation ensures it meets customer requirements. Whitebox testing uses internal knowledge to test code, while blackbox testing treats the system as a black box without internal knowledge. The document also covers different types of testing like unit, integration, and functional testing.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
The document discusses various software process models including prescriptive models like waterfall model and incremental process model. It also covers evolutionary models like prototyping and spiral process model. Specialized models covered are component based development, formal methods model, aspect oriented development and unified process model. The key highlights are that different models are suited for different situations based on project needs and each model has advantages and disadvantages to consider.
The document discusses the iterative software development process (SDP). It describes the main stages as analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, evaluation, and maintenance. At each stage, specific tasks are undertaken, such as creating requirements in analysis, designing algorithms and diagrams in design, coding in implementation, testing in testing, creating user guides in documentation, and fixing bugs in maintenance. People involved include clients, analysts, project managers, and programmers. Documents created include specifications, algorithms, test reports, guides, and evaluation/maintenance reports.
This lecture provide a review of requirement engineering process. The slides have been prepared after reading Ian Summerville and Roger Pressman work. This lecture is helpful to understand user, and user requirements.
This document discusses different types of software metrics including process, product, and project metrics. It defines metrics as quantitative measures of attributes and discusses how they can be used as indicators to improve processes and projects. Process metrics measure attributes of the development process over long periods of time. Product metrics measure attributes of the software at different stages. Project metrics are used to monitor and control projects. The document also discusses size-oriented and function-oriented metrics for normalization and comparison purposes. It provides examples of calculating function points and deriving metrics like errors per function point.
Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Also to assess the feature of A software item. Testing assesses the quality of the product. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words software testing is a verification and validation process.
Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects).
Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program/application/product:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• works as expected,
• can be implemented with the same characteristics,
• and satisfies the needs of stakeholders.
Software Development Process Cycle:-
PLAN (P): Device a plan. Define your objective and determine the strategy and supporting methods required to achieve that objective.
DO (D): Execute the plan. Create the conditions and perform the necessary training to execute the plan.
CHECK (C): Check the results. Check to determine whether work is progressing according to the plan and whether the results are obtained.
ACTION (A): Take the necessary and appropriate action if checkup reveals that the work is not being performed according to plan or not as anticipated.
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Levels of Software Testing
What is Integration Testing?
Different Approaches to Integration Testing
How to do Integration Testing?
Examples of Integration Testing
Integration Testing Challenges & Best Practices
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SWE-401 - 1. Introduction to Software Engineeringghayour abbas
Software engineering is the application of engineering principles to the development of software. It involves systematic, disciplined, and quantifiable approaches to develop, operate, and maintain software. The goal of software engineering is to produce reliable and efficient software products. Some key aspects of software engineering include requirements gathering, design, programming, testing, and maintenance. Software engineering principles are important for developing large, complex software in a cost-effective manner that can scale and adapt to changing needs over time.
The document discusses several common software development myths. It is written by a group of 7 software engineers. The myths discussed include: 1) that clients know exactly what they want, 2) that requirements are fixed, 3) that quality can't be assessed until a program is running, 4) that adding more people fixes schedule slips, 5) that security is only a cryptography problem, 6) that a tester's only task is to find bugs, 7) that testing can't begin until development is fully complete, and 8) that network defenses alone can provide protection. The document aims to dispel these myths and provide more accurate perspectives.
This document defines key concepts related to quality in software engineering, including definitions of quality, software quality, and several quality factor frameworks. It discusses Garvin's quality dimensions, McCall's quality factors, ISO 9126 quality factors, and targeted quality factors. The document also covers concepts like good enough software and the cost of quality.
Coding is new literacy and you shouldn't miss the chance to learn to code. Not only you but your children should learn to code. Learn more about coding in a fun and easy way with RoboGarden.
RoboGarden is an easy to understand, hands-on educational app where students take part in active learning. Fully equipped to teach coding literacy from scratch, RoboGarden reduces the need for a tech-savvy teacher.
For More info Please visit: www.robogarden.ca
Coding for Teachers and Kids Workshop PresentationJoanne Villis
Coding for kids and teachers. How to make this a shared process. This is a presentation which I delivered at a conference. Notes are very brief. The main focus of the session was for teachers to have hands on time tinkering (playing).
The document provides background information on programming languages and their history. It discusses early pioneers in computer programming such as Ada Lovelace, Herman Hollerith, and Konrad Zuse. It outlines the development of many popular modern programming languages such as Fortran, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and others, describing their key features and common uses. Ada Lovelace is noted as creating the first computer program in 1843 for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
The document provides an introduction to software testing. It discusses that software testing verifies and validates that software meets requirements and works as expected. The main purposes of testing are verification, validation, and defect finding. Examples of why software testing is important are provided. The document outlines what is tested, who does the testing, and strategies for unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, validation testing, system testing, stress testing, and performance testing.
Knowledge Representation in Artificial intelligence Yasir Khan
This document discusses different methods of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence, including logical representations, semantic networks, production rules, and frames. Logical representations use formal logics like propositional logic and first-order predicate logic to represent facts and relationships. Semantic networks represent knowledge graphically as nodes and edges to model concepts and their relationships. Production rules represent knowledge as condition-action pairs to model problem-solving. Frames represent stereotyped situations as templates with slots to model attributes and behaviors. Choosing the right knowledge representation method is important for building successful AI systems.
The document discusses different types of knowledge that may need to be represented in AI systems, including objects, events, performance, and meta-knowledge. It also discusses representing knowledge at two levels: the knowledge level containing facts, and the symbol level containing representations of objects defined in terms of symbols. Common ways of representing knowledge mentioned include using English, logic, relations, semantic networks, frames, and rules. The document also discusses using knowledge for applications like learning, reasoning, and different approaches to machine learning such as skill refinement, knowledge acquisition, taking advice, problem solving, induction, discovery, and analogy.
The document discusses requirements analysis, which involves understanding customer needs and expectations for a proposed system. Requirements analysis is necessary to ensure projects align with business goals and specifications. The requirements analysis process includes identifying system boundaries, customers, eliciting requirements through stakeholder interviews, analyzing requirements, documenting requirements in a specification, and managing evolving requirements. An effective software requirements specification establishes agreement between customers and developers on system functionality.
Knowledge representation techniques face several issues including representing important attributes of objects, relationships between attributes, choosing the level of detail in representations, depicting sets of multiple objects, and determining appropriate structures as needed.
The document discusses memory management techniques used in operating systems. It describes logical vs physical addresses and how relocation registers map logical addresses to physical addresses. It covers contiguous and non-contiguous storage allocation, including paging and segmentation. Paging divides memory into fixed-size frames and pages, using a page table and translation lookaside buffer (TLB) for address translation. Segmentation divides memory into variable-sized segments based on a program's logical structure. Virtual memory and demand paging are also covered, along with page replacement algorithms like FIFO, LRU and optimal replacement.
The document discusses various electronic payment systems used for e-commerce transactions. It describes advantages and disadvantages of different systems including electronic cash, electronic wallets, smart cards, and credit cards. It provides details on how each system works, examples of implementations, and considerations regarding their adoption and success.
The document discusses the format and structure of a research report. It begins by outlining the main sections, which are the preliminary section, body of the report, and reference section. The preliminary section includes things like the title page, preface/acknowledgements, table of contents, and lists of tables/figures. The body of the report includes the introduction, design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data, and summary and conclusions. The reference section includes the bibliography and appendix. General rules for typing the report are also provided, such as margins, spacing, and abbreviations.
This document discusses various aspects of file systems including:
1. It defines what a file is and lists some common file attributes like name, size, and timestamps.
2. It describes different file operations like create, read, write, delete and different methods to access and store files like sequential, random, and index access.
3. It discusses file system implementation techniques like contiguous allocation, linked lists, and i-nodes and how free space is managed through approaches like bitmaps and linked lists.
This document discusses structured programming, functional programming, programming style, coding guidelines, software documentation, and challenges in software implementation. Structured programming breaks problems down into smaller pieces and uses modular programming and structured coding. Functional programming uses mathematical functions and avoids side effects. Good programming style and coding guidelines make code more readable and maintainable. Software documentation includes requirements, design, technical, and user documentation. Challenges include code reuse and compatibility issues.
This document discusses structured programming, functional programming, programming style, coding guidelines, software documentation, and challenges in software implementation. Structured programming breaks problems down into smaller pieces and uses modular programming and structured coding. Functional programming uses mathematical functions and concepts like recursion. Good programming style and coding guidelines make code readable and understandable. Software documentation includes requirements, design, technical, and user documentation. Challenges include code reuse, version management, and designing for target hosts.
The document discusses various aspects of coding, including:
- The goal of coding is to translate a design into code that can be executed by a computer. Coding affects testing and maintenance.
- Good coding practices include writing code that is simple, easy to understand, test and modify by adhering to principles like information hiding, structured programming and modularity.
- Static and dynamic verification methods are used to ensure the coded matches the design, including code reviews, unit testing, data flow analysis and symbolic execution. Comments are added for documentation and readability.
fundamentals of software engineering.this unit covers all the aspects of software engineering coding standards and naming them and code inspectionna an d various testing methods and
1. Good software development organizations require programmers to follow standardized coding standards to improve code quality.
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𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
Students will be able to explain the role and impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. They will understand how ICT tools, such as computers, the internet, and educational software, enhance learning and teaching processes. By exploring various ICT applications, students will recognize how these technologies facilitate access to information, improve communication, support collaboration, and enable personalized learning experiences.
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭:
-Students will be able to discuss what constitutes reliable sources on the internet. They will learn to identify key characteristics of trustworthy information, such as credibility, accuracy, and authority. By examining different types of online sources, students will develop skills to evaluate the reliability of websites and content, ensuring they can distinguish between reputable information and misinformation.
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Lesson Outcomes:
- students will be able to identify and name various types of ornamental plants commonly used in landscaping and decoration, classifying them based on their characteristics such as foliage, flowering, and growth habits. They will understand the ecological, aesthetic, and economic benefits of ornamental plants, including their roles in improving air quality, providing habitats for wildlife, and enhancing the visual appeal of environments. Additionally, students will demonstrate knowledge of the basic requirements for growing ornamental plants, ensuring they can effectively cultivate and maintain these plants in various settings.
2. Coding
• Coding is undertaken once the design
phase is complete and the design
documents have been successfully
reviewed. In the coding phase, every module
identified and specified in the design document
is independently coded and unit tested.
• The input to the coding phase is the design
document.
• During the coding phase, different modules
identified in the design document are coded
according to the respective module
specifications.
3. Most software development
organizations formulate their own coding
standards that suit them most and
require their engineers to follow these
standards rigorously due to the following
reasons:
• A coding standard gives a uniform
appearance to the codes written by
different engineers.
• It provides sound understanding of the
code.
• It encourages good programming
practice.
4. 2. Programming practice:
• The primary goal of the coding phase
is to translate the given design into
source code in a given programming
language, so that the code is simple
easy to test and easy to understand
and modify.
• So now we will discuss some concepts
related to coding in a language
independent manner.
5. • 2.1 Top-Down and Bottom –up: All design
contains hierarchies as creating a
hierarchy is a natural way to manage
complexity. Most design methodologies for
software also produce hierarchies. The
question at coding time is; given the hierarchy
of modules produced by design, in what order
the modules be built—starting form the top or
starting from the bottom level?.
• In a Top down implementation, the
implementation starts from the top of the
hierarchy and proceeds to the lower levels.
In a Bottom-up implementation the process is
the reverse.
6. • 2.2 Structured programming: Structured
programming is often regarded as “goto-
less” programming. Although extensive use
of gotos is certainly not desirable, structured
program can be written with the use of gotos.
Here we provide a brief discussion on what the
structured programming is.
• A program has a static structure as well as
dynamic structure. The static structure is the
structure of the text of the program, which is
usually just a linear organization of statements
of the program. The dynamic structure of the
program is the sequence of statements
executed during the execution of the program.
• The goal of structured programming is to
ensure that the static structure and the
dynamic structures are the same.
7. 2.3 Information hiding:
• Information hiding can reduce the
coupling between modules and make
the system more maintainable.
• Information hiding is also an effective
tool for managing the complexity of
developing software.
• Another form of information hiding is to
let a module see only those data items
needed by it.
8. • 2.4 Programming style: The
programming style consists of some
standard and guidelines which we will
discuss in the next section of this
presentation.
9. 2.5 Internal documentation:
• Internal documentation of the program
is done by the use of comments. All
languages provide a means for writing
comments in program. Comments are
textual statements that are meant for
the program reader and are not
executed.
10. Comments for a module are often called
prologue for the module. It is best to
standardize the structure of the prologue of
the module. It is desirable if the prologue
contains the following information:
• Module functionality or what the module is
doing.
• Parameters and their purpose.
• Assumptions about the inputs, if any.
• Global variables accessed or modified in the
module.
11. 3. Coding Standards
• General coding standards pertain to how the
developer writes code, so here we will discuss some
important standard regardless of the programming
language being used.
3.1 Indentation
• Proper and consistent indentation is important in
producing easy to read and maintainable programs.
Indentation should be used to:
• Emphasize the body of a control statement such as a
loop or a select statement
• Emphasize the body of a conditional statement
• Emphasize a new scope block
12. 3.2 Inline Comments
• Inline comments explaining the functioning of
the subroutine or key aspects of the
algorithm shall be frequently used.
3.3 Structured Programming
• Structured (or modular) programming
techniques shall be used. GO TO statements
shall not be used as they lead to “spaghetti”
code, which is hard to read and maintain,
except as outlined in the FORTRAN
Standards and Guidelines.
13. • 3.4 Classes, Subroutines, Functions, and
Methods
• Keep subroutines, functions, and methods
reasonably sized. This depends upon the
language being used. A good rule of thumb
for module length is to constrain each
module to one function or action (i.e. each
module should only do one “thing”).
• The names of the classes, subroutines,
functions, and methods shall have verbs in
them. That is the names shall specify an
action, e.g. “get_name”,
“compute_temperature”.
14. 3.5 Source Files
• The name of the source file or script
shall represent its function. All of the
routines in a file shall have a common
purpose.
3.6 Variable Names
• Variable shall have mnemonic or
meaningful names that convey to a
casual observer, the intent of its use.
Variables shall be initialized prior to its
first use.
15. 3.7 Use of Braces
Bad:
if (j == 0)
printf (“j is zero.n”);
Better:
if (j == 0)
{
printf (“j is zero.n”);
}
16. 3.8 Compiler Warnings
• Compilers often issue two types of
messages: warnings and errors. Compiler
warnings normally do not stop the
compilation process. However, compiler
errors do stop the compilation process,
forcing the developer to fix the problem
and recompile.
• Compiler and linker warnings shall be
treated as errors and fixed. Even though
the program will continue to compile in the
presence of warnings, they often indicate
problems which may affect the behavior,
reliability and portability of the code.
17. 4. Coding Guidelines
• General coding guidelines provide the
programmer with a set of best practices
which can be used to make programs
easier to read and maintain.
• Most of the examples use the C
language syntax but the guidelines can
be applied to all languages.
18. • 4.1 Line Length
• It is considered good practice to keep
the lengths of source code lines at or
below 80 characters. Lines longer
than this may not be displayed
properly on some terminals and tools.
Some printers will truncate lines
longer than 80 columns.
19. 4.2 Spacing
The proper use of spaces within a line of code can
enhance readability.
Example:
Bad:
cost=price+(price*sales_tax);
fprintf(stdout ,“The total cost is %5.2fn”,cost);
Better:
cost = price + ( price * sales_tax );
fprintf (stdout, “The total cost is %5.2fn”, cost) ;
20. 4.3 Wrapping Lines
When an expression will not fit on a single line, break
it according to these following principles:
• Break after a comma
Example:
Bad:
longName1 = longName2 * (longName3 +
LongName4 –
longName5) + 4 * longName6 ;
Better:
longName1 = longName2 * (longName3 +
LongName4 – LongName5)
+ 4 * longName6 ;
21. 4.4 Variable Declarations
Variable declarations that span multiple lines
should always be preceded by a type.
Example:
Acceptable:
int price , score ;
Acceptable:
int price ;
int score ;
Not Acceptable:
int price ,
score ;
22. 4.5 Program Statements
Program statements should be limited to
one per line. Also, nested statements
should be avoided when possible.
Example:
Bad:
number_of_names = names.length ; b =
new JButton [ number_of_names ] ;
Better:
number_of_names = names.length ;
b = new JButton [ number_of_names ] ;
23. 4.6 Use of Parentheses
It is better to use parentheses liberally. Even in
cases where operator precedence
unambiguously dictates the order of
evaluation of an expression, often it is
beneficial from a readability point of view to
include parentheses anyway.
Example:
Acceptable:
total = 3 – 4 * 3 ;
Better:
total = 3 – ( 4 * 3 ) ;
Even better:
total = ( -4 * 3 ) + 3 ;
24. 4.7 Inline Comments
• Inline comments promote program
readability.
4.8 Meaningful Error Messages
• Error handling is an important aspect
of computer programming. This not
only includes adding the necessary
logic to test for and handle errors but
also involves making error messages
meaningful.
25. 4.10 Reasonably Sized Functions and
Methods
Software modules and methods should not
contain an excessively large number of lines
of code. They should be written to perform
one specific task. If they become too long,
then chances are the task being performed
can be broken down into subtasks which
can be handled by new routines or methods.
A reasonable number of lines of code for
routine or a method is 200.
26. 5. Software documentation:
Software documentation or source
code documentation is written text
that accompanies computer software.
It either explains how it operates or
how to use it, or may mean different
things to people in different roles.
27. Involvement of people in software life
Documentation is an important part of software
engineering. Types of documentation include:
• Requirements - Statements that identify
attributes, capabilities, characteristics, or
qualities of a system. This is the foundation for
what shall be or has been implemented.
• Architecture/Design - Overview of software.
Includes relations to an environment and
construction principles to be used in design of
software components.
• Technical - Documentation of code, algorithms,
interfaces, and APIs.
• End User - Manuals for the end-user, system
administrators and support staff.
• Marketing - How to market the product and
analysis of the market demand.
28. 5.1 Requirements documentation
Requirements documentation is the
description of what a particular software
does or shall do.
5.2 Architecture/Design documentation
A good architecture document is short on
details but thick on explanation.
A very important part of the design
document is the Database Design
Document (DDD). It contains
Conceptual, Logical, and Physical
Design Elements.
29. 5.3 Technical documentation
This is what most programmers mean when
using the term software documentation.
When creating software, code alone is
insufficient. There must be some text along
with it to describe various aspects of its
intended operation.
5.4 User documentation
Unlike code documents, user documents are
usually far more diverse with respect to the
source code of the program, and instead
simply describe how it is used.
30. There are three broad ways in which user documentation
can be organized.
• Tutorial: A tutorial approach is considered the most
useful for a new user, in which they are guided
through each step of accomplishing particular tasks.
• Thematic: A thematic approach, where chapters or
sections concentrate on one particular area of
interest, is of more general use to an intermediate
user. Some authors prefer to convey their ideas through
a knowledge based article to facilitating the user needs.
This approach is usually practiced by a dynamic
industry, such as this Information technology, where the
user population is largely correlated with the
troubleshooting demands.
• List or Reference: The final type of organizing
principle is one in which commands or tasks are
simply listed alphabetically or logically grouped,
often via cross-referenced indexes. This latter approach
is of greater use to advanced users who know exactly
what sort of information they are looking for.
31. 5.5 Marketing documentation
For many applications it is necessary to have
some promotional materials to encourage
casual observers to spend more time
learning about the product. This form of
documentation has three purposes:-
• To excite the potential user about the product
and instill in them a desire for becoming
more involved with it.
• To inform them about what exactly the
product does, so that their expectations are
in line with what they will be receiving.
• To explain the position of this product with
respect to other alternatives.
32. 6. Code verification techniques
Verification of the output of the coding phase is
primarily intended for detecting errors introduced
during this phase.
6.1 Code reading
Code reading involves careful reading of the code by
the programmer to detect any discrepancies between
the design specifications and the actual
implementation.
6.2 Static analysis
Analysis of programs by methodically analyzing the
program text is called static analysis. Static analysis
is usually performed mechanically by the aid of
software tools.
33. 6.3 Code inspections or reviews
• The review process was started with
the purpose of detecting defects in the
code.
• Code reviews are designed to detect
defects that originate during the coding
process, although they can also detect
defects in detailed design.
34. The following are some of the items that can be
included in a checklist for code reviews:
• Are the pointers set to NULL, where needed?
• Are all the array indexes within bound?
• Are indexes properly initialized?
• Do data definitions exploit the typing capabilities of the
language?
• Do all pointers point to some object?
• Will a loop always terminate?
• Is the loop termination condition correct?
• Is the number of loop execution “off by one”?
• Where applicable, are the divisors tested for zero?
• Are imported data tested for validity?
• Do actual and formal parameters match?
• Are all variables used?
• Are the label unreferenced?
35. 6.5 Unit testing
• Unit testing is a dynamic method for
verification where the program is
actually compiled and executed. It is
one of the most widely used methods
and the coding phase is sometime
called the “coding and unit testing
phase”. As in other forms of testing unit
testing involves executing the code with
some test cases and then evaluating
the results.