Abstract Data Type (ADT) - answer✔A type that is defined by its operations rather than its
representation. The representation
is private and may only be accessed by the defined operations.
Acceptance Testing - answer✔Customer tests of a system to decide if it is adequate to meet
their needs and so should be accepted from a supplier.
Activity chart - answer✔Used to show dependencies between tasks that have to be completed.
Agile Manifesto - answer✔A set of principles encapsulating the ideas underlying agile methods
of software
development.
Agile Methods - answer✔Methods of software development that are geared to rapid software
delivery. The
software is developed and delivered in increments, and process documentation and
bureaucracy are minimized. The focus of development is on the code itself, rather
than supporting documents.
Algorithmic cost modeling - answer✔an approach to software cost estimation where a formula
is used to estimate the project cost. The parameters in the formula are attributes of the project
and the software itself
Application family - answer✔A set of software application programs that have a common
architecture and
generic functionality. These can be tailored to the needs of specific customers by
modifying components and program parameters.
Application Framework - answer✔A set of reusable concrete and abstract classes that
implement features common to
many applications in a domain.
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Application program interface (API) - answer✔An interface that allows access to an
application program's functionality.
Architectural pattern (style) - answer✔An abstract description of a software architecture that
has been tried and tested in a number of different software systems.
Architectural Views - answer✔A description of a software architecture from a particular
perspective or view.
Availability - answer✔The readiness of a system to deliver services when requested.
Bar Chart (Gantt Chart) - answer✔A chart used by project managers to show the project tasks,
the schedule associated
with these tasks and the people who will work on them.
Black Box Testing - answer✔An approach to testing where the testers have no access to the
source code of a
system or its components.
BPMN - answer✔Business Process Modeling Notation is a notation for defining workflows that
describe business processes and service composition.
Brownfield software development - answer✔The development of software for an environment
where there are several existing
systems that the software being developed must integrate with.
C - answer✔A programming language that was originally developed to implement the Unix
system.
C is a relatively low-level system implementation language.
C++ - answer✔An object-oriented programming language that is a superset of C.
C# - answer✔An object-oriented programming language, developed by Microsoft, that has
much in common with C++, but which includes features that allow more compile-time
type checking.
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) - answer✔is used to
assess the level of software development maturity in an organization.
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