Software Engineering For Students: A Programming Approach Part 23 potx

... (index). But, in contrast to an array, items can be added or removed from anywhere within an array list. Also an array list grows and shrinks as necessary to accommodate the required data. An array list holds ... accounts, and so on. Through classi- fication, we are able to associate characteristics common to all members of a class. All mammals are vertebrates (have backbones), are warm-blo...

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... software engineering methods are well-defined while others are ill-defined. And the processes of software development are always under debate. Software engineering is about imagination and creativity ... 410 B Glossary 411 C UML Summary 412 C.1 Use case diagrams 412 C.2 Class diagrams 413 C.3 Package diagrams 414 C.4 Activity diagrams 414 Further reading 416 Bibliography 417 Index 4...

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... Whatever you do to an object in a program, it always retains the features it had when it was created. An object can be assigned to a variable of another class and passed around the program as a ... inheritance, you use an existing class as the basis for creating a modified class. We again use as an example the cyberspace invaders program that displays graphical images on the screen...

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... summary, the rules for selecting test data for black box testing using equivalence partitioning are: 1. partition the input data values 2. select representative data from each partition (equivalent ... mathematical notation. One such specification language is called Z. Once the formal specification for a program has been written, there are two alternative approaches: 1. write the prog...

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... are always informal processes at work – both individual and group. A project manager needs an awareness of these processes and needs to know what can be done to avoid weakening a team and what ... what blend of criteria is appropriate for the particular project. For example, the set of goals for a particular project might be to optimize: ■ development effort, ■ reliability, and ■...

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... Visual Basic started out as a toy and became a widely used tool for serious Windows-based applications. Java emerged as a secure and portable language with net- centric features. Any language for ... influ- enced by many factors not directly related to the programming language itself. For example, many organizations have a substantial investment in a particular programming...

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... Page 422 abstraction 99, 107 acceptance test 251, 332 activity diagrams 414 Ada 177, 189, 215, 233 , 254, 393 adaptive maintenance 11 adversary team 275 agile manifesto 330 agile methods 330 Algol ... 322 orthogonality 177 OSM 323 overwork 334 package diagrams 414 packages 223 pair programming 286, 334 paralysis 371 parameters 188 Pascal 393 patient monitoring system case study 113, 229,...

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... Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bell, Doug, 1944- Software engineering ... Page ii Software Engineering for Students BELL _A0 1.QXD 2/2/05 3:20 PM Page i Software Engineering for Students A Programming Approach Fourth Edition DOUGLAS BELL...

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... as appropriate within the text as a graphi- cal design notation. Some other graphical notations – flowcharts, structure charts and data flow diagrams are also used. Java is used as an illustrative ... software is software that helps perform some directly useful or enjoyable task. Examples are games, the software for automatic teller machines (ATMs), the control software in an airp...

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... Arguably, as hardware becomes available to make previously impractical software projects feasible, software costs can only continue to escalate. In summary, what we see today is that software ... often as software. Although this is grounds for friendly rivalry between software and hardware designers, it can be no grounds for com- placency among software people. There are partic...

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