1. Exam 1 review
CS 360
Lecture 20

2. System Architecture System Models Subsystems/Components Packages Nodes
Replaceable
Classes
Packages
Nodes
Component Diagrams
Deployment Diagrams
Architectural Styles

3. Security issues in software engineering
Software development security issues
Security threat models
Security Architecture
Designing with security in mind
Security components and techniques
Programming secure software
Most dangerous errors

4. Legacy Systems Software component reuse
Designing software systems for change
Modular/replaceable components
Designing software systems for reuse
Legacy code
Generating requirements, documentation, models, etc.
Modifying
Testing
Dependencies

5. Software System Performance 1
When and how performance matters in computer systems
High performance computing
HPC vs HTC
Performance challenges for software systems
Bottlenecks
Timescales of components
Utilization of different components
Predicting system performance
Simulations
Direct measurement
Fixing poor performance
Software performance requirements documentation

6. Software System Performance 2
Analyzing system performance
Performance engineering motivation
Performance metrics
Performance engineering documentation
Requirements
Functional specifications
Design specifications

7. Usability and user interface 1
Importance and development of user interfaces
Mock up, wire frames, focus groups
Usability requirements
Accessibility
Equipment
Mental models
Interface functionality
UI design
GUI
Command line
Help systems

8. Usability and user interface 2
Four computing eras
HCI architectures
Unimodal
Multimodal
Usability goals
Usability design
Users with disabilities
Elderly users
children

9. Software Reliability Reliability terminology
Failure, fault, error, fault avoidance/detection/tolerance
Software vs. hardware reliability
Software reliability modeling
Software reliability metrics

10. Software testing 1 Testing strategies Levels of testing
General characteristics
Verification and validation
Levels of testing
Unit testing
Interface, data structurers, boundaries, basis paths, error handling
Integration testing
Non-incremental, incremental
Validation testing
Based on requirements
System testing
Regression testing
Smoke testing
Error discovery and handling
debugging

11. Software testing 2 Static verification testing Program inspections
Data, control, I/O, interface, storage, exceptions
Dynamic verification testing
Interface
Parameters, shared memory, message passing protocols
Unit testing: Basis paths
Flow graphs, cyclomatic complexity, basis set, test cases
Integration testing
Performance/stress testing
Acceptance testing

12. Acceptance testing Acceptance Criteria Acceptance Testing Approach
Iterative/Incremental/Sequential
Acceptance Test Reports/Documentation
Delivery of Software

13. Exam 1 Exam: five questions, one to omit, graded out of four.
Each question equally weighted (25% each)
Detailed answers must be legible (marked incorrect if I can’t read your answer)
Answer quality/detail will determine your score for each question
Possible multiple section questions; a, b, c, ..
One hour to complete the exam in class (11:30am – 12:30pm, 1:50pm – 2:50pm)
Content on exam 0:
Lecture 8 – 18: Chapters 6, 8, 9, 11, 13
Supplemental Reading: Computer Security in the Real World through Seven Principles of Software Testing
Suggested Reading: Your group’s project documentation