Software Design and Testing Quiz

An important aspect of coding is

• Readability

• Productivity

• To use as small memory space as possible

• Brevity

Structured programming codes includes

• sequencing

• alteration

• iteration

• all of the above

User documentation consist of

• Training manuals, operation manuals and reference manuals

• Description of the program logic in the form of algorithm

• Control flow diagram and data flow diagram

• All of the above

Which of the following is not a requirement of structured design?

• It should be made up of a hierarchy of modules

• It should use many goto statements

• The code should be executed in a top to bottom fashion within each module.

• Each module should be as independent as possible of all other modules, except its parent

________ are used to organize work activities and to maintain the documents.

• Supporting Documents

• user manual

• Internal documents

• program unit notebooks

A programming standard must specify items as

• Goto statements will not be used

• The nesting depth of program constructs will not exceed five levels.

• Subroutine length will not exceed 30 lines.

• All of the above.

Which one of the following is not included into the good coding style.

• Hide data structures behind access function.

• Isolate machine dependencies in a few routines.

• Use an identifier for multiple purposes.

• Introduce user defined datatypes

The number of statements allowed in the routines are________

• 5 to 25

• 10 to 25

• 5 to 30

• 10 to 30

The _______ refers to the restriction and limitations imposed on the ways in which data items can be manipulated by the program.

• Expression

• Data type

• Operators

• Type checking

_________ is the fundamental approach to concurrent programming.

• Semaphores

• Shared variable

• P and V operations

• All of the above