CS160 Exam 1

  1. [5 points] Chapter 1 of Kruchten's book states "For example, focusing too heavily on requirements in Inception is counterproductive. " Briefly (< 100 words--strictly enforced) explain in which phases which parts of the SRS might be developed if one follows the Rational Unified Process.

    Since the purpose of the inception phase is to get the buy-in of stakeholders, the purpose and scope description and summary/user level use cases should be done in that phase. Some functional/non-functional requirements may be needed for buy-in. The remainder should be completed early in the elaboration phase.

  2. [10 points] Fill in the blanks:
    1. Each step of a use case should make clear which actor is carrying out the action described in the step, and what is accomplished in the step. You should use active verbs in the present tense.
    2. Duration is the number of days between the start and end of a schedule task. Effort is that quantity multiplied by the (possibly fractional) number of people assigned to the task.
    3. The slack of a task in a schedule indicates by how much the task can be delayed without changing the final date.
    4. The three layers of a typical web application are the presentation, domain model, and persistence layer.
    5. The technique of adding markers to an HTML page in order to indicate the dynamically changing parts is described by the template view pattern.
  3. [10 points] Make the following modifications to this schedule:
    1. Right now, Bob is overloaded. Resolve that problem by changing a task link.

      Add a link from "Initial Glossary" to "UI Mockups"

    2. Make a summary task "SRS" that contains all SRS tasks and make the task "Design entity beans" a successor of that summary.

      The trick is to use the four yellow arrows.

    3. A new developer, Dave, is added. Replace "Write Use Cases" with two tasks "Write Use Cases for End User" (15 days) and "Write Use Cases for Administrator (5 days). The tasks can work in parallel. Make suitable resource assignments for these two tasks that don't create overloads and minimize the schedule. Do not change other resource assignments.

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  4. [5 points] In this problem, you are asked to produce a UML diagram. If you have no UML editor installed on your machine, simply use Violet. (If your computer has Web Start properly configured, you can click on the “Try it out” link and run the program without installing it.)
    Produce a UML sequence diagram that denotes the following facts:If you use Violet, you need to add an "activation bar (AKA execution specification bar)" to the first "implicit parameter". Then you can simply draw arrows to other implicit parameter nodes. Right-click on nodes and arrows to get a labeling dialog.

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  5. [10 points] Improve the following Ant script which uses this properties file. The purpose of the script is to place the documentation for your team project onto the GlassFish server. As you can see, the script zips up all files in the doc subdirectory and adds a trivial WEB-INF/web.xml file (which GlassFish requires to deploy the file). The resulting file team-doc.war is then copied to the autodeploy directory.
    However, this script assumes that the documentation exists in the base directory. Your job is to augment the script by checking out the documentation from CVS. You should assume that the documentation is on Oslo, in the CVS directory /home/cvsroot/sandbox/${team} with module name doc. Your team and user name are in build.properties. Look at the CVS task documentation, and place the task with appropriate attributes in an appropriate place in the script.
    Feel free to try this out, html">homework 1. Your critique should address deficiencies (if they exist) in the following areas:Describe two distinct flaws. For each of them, give a snappy summary (< 10 words), followed by a brief (< 100 words) discussion.

    This is like shooting fish in a barrel. Here are several possible answers. Two answers were sufficient for a full score.

  6. [5 points] Check the following files into CVS:

    You will check your solution into your individual CVS sandbox, into a project entitled exam1. I will check out your work with the following commands:

    export CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:username@oslo.cs.sjsu.edu:/home/cvsroot/sandbox/username
cvs checkout exam1

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