1. Discuss the differences among the various process flows.

Identify the types of problems that might be applicable to each

of the generic flows described?
Linear
Iterative Evolutionary Parallel
No. process
process flow process flow process flow
flow
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It executes
set of set of
the 5 It executes the
activities activities in
1 framework activities in a
before parallel with
activities in circular routine.
proceeding to another
sequence.
the next one. activity.
After deployment
It ends with It ends with activity it again It ends with
2 deployment deployment starts with next deployment
activity. activity. circle for another activity.
version.
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single activities leads to
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version a more complete
release. release.
release. version of the
software.
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activities are are gone
4 activities can can repeated a
gone through through just
repeated. number of times
just once. once.
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in parallel.
 2. What is software framework activities? How Umbrella activities
are important with software framework explain?
- Framework is a Standard way to build and deploy applications. Software
Process Framework is a foundation of complete software engineering
process. Software process framework includes all set of umbrella
activities. It also includes number of framework activities that are
applicable to all software projects.

B. How Umbrella activities are important with software framework

explain.
a. Software Project Tracking and Control

Before the actual development begins, a schedule for developing the

software is created. Based on that schedule the development will be
done. However, after a certain period of time it is required to review
the progress of the development to find out actions which are in
need to be taken to complete the development, testing etc. in time.
The outcome of the review might require the development to be
rescheduled.

b. Formal Technical Reviews

Software engineering is done in clusters or modules, after

completing each module, it is good practice to review the completed
module to find out and remove errors so their propagation to the
next module can be prevented.

c. Software Quality Assurance

The quality of the software such user experience, performance, load

handling capacity etc. should be tested and confirmed after reaching
predefined milestones. This reduces the task at the end of the
development process. It should be conducted by dedicated teams so
that the development can keep going on.

D. Software Configuration Management

Software configuration management (SCM) is a set of activities
designed to control change by identifying the work products that are
likely to change, establishing relationships among them, defining
mechanisms for managing different versions of these work products.

e. Document preparation and production

All the project planning and other activities should be hardly copied
and the production get started here.

f. Re-usability Management

This includes the backing up of each part of the software project they
can be corrected or any kind of support can be given to them later to
update or upgrade the software at user/time demand.

g. Measurement & Metrics

This will include all the measurement of every aspects of the

software project.

h. Risk Management

Risk management is a series of steps that help a software team to

understand and manage uncertainty. It’s a really good idea to
identify it, assess its probability of occurrence, estimate its impact,
and establish a contingency plan that─ ‘should the problem actually
occur’.

3. Explain Classical waterfall model. Provide three examples of

software projects that would be amenable to the waterfall
model. Be specific?
- Classical waterfall model is the basic software development life
cycle model. It is very simple but idealistic. Earlier this model was
very popular but nowadays it is not used. But it is very important
because all the other software development life cycle models are
based on the classical waterfall model.
Classical waterfall model divides the life cycle into a set of
 phases. This model considers that one phase can be started after
completion of the previous phase. That is the output of one phase
will be the input to the next phase. Thus the development process
can be considered as a sequential flow in the waterfall. Here the
phases do not overlap with each other.

b. Provide three examples of software projects that would be

amenable to the waterfall model. Be specific?
- an OPERATING SYSTEM , as the various specific parts of the OS
could be developed as the user requires them .
- a GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE , similar to the OS , the GUI can
be created according to the customers requirements and
approval
- a WEB APPLICATION , a base application can be developed and
delivered ,followed by any number of additional plug-ins that
the customer would want for additional functionality.

4 . Suggest two advantages and two disadvantages of the approach

to process assessment and improvement that is embodied in the SEI’s
Capability Maturity framework.

Advantages;
1. Provides a means of measuring the state of a process and a
structured approach to introducing process improvements.
2. Useful as a way of building on the experience of others in
process improvement.

Disadvantages ;
1. Like any measurement system, there is a tendency to
introduce improvements to improve the measured rating rather
than concentrate on improvements that meet real business
goals.
2. Expensive and bureaucratic to operate. Not suitable for agile
approaches.