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Exam Structure (mid-term and final)

Time: 75 minutes

Students will be pretended with a list of SIX X vs Y items (for examples, see below).

For THREE of those items

for each item
- write down the X vs Y
- What is the same about X and Y
- What is different about X or Y
- When should a software project select X versus Y?
- If a projects does (X or Y), how to monitor and check if the selected item turns out to be not working?

Examples of X vs Y

Git flow vs commit2 trunk
Short vs long release cycles
Uml vs pdoc
Feature models vs ER diagrams
CRC vs state machines
Compartmental models vs state machines
Closed sources vs open source (see video, Thursday Sep21)
On-prem vs cloud (see video, Thursday Sep21)
Python vs C
Distributed versus centralized development
Apache vs MIT
TDD vs waterfall
Agile vs waterfall
Black box testing vs White box testing?
3 tired vs blackboard
Idioms vs architectured
mean vs lamp
Patterns vs do everything from scratch
Crud vs RESTful
Functional programming vs OO patterns
Whitebox vs formal
Functional vs non-functional requirements
Security vs availability
Testing via ( Random vs Grammar-based fuzzing)
Testing via (theorem proving vs TDD)
etc