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1. In Software Engineering we measure things for all of the following reasons except: *
a. to characterize processes, products, etc.
b. to evaluate status with respect to plans
c. to appraise performance of individuals
d. to improve product quality and processes
2. Small software organizations are not likely to see any economic return from establishing software metrics program. *
True
False
3. Project metrics enable a software project manager to *
a. assess the status of an on-going project
b. track potential risks.
c. adjust work flow or tasks.
d. all of the above.
4. One would expect that a program written in C would have more function points than a program of the same size (in terms of lines of code) written in Java. *
5. Which of the following is an advantage of using function points (FP) as a measure of the functionality delivered by a software application? *
a. FP is easily computed.
b. FP is a language independent measure.
c. FP is a function of LOC.
d. FP is based purely on objective data.
6. Which of the following is not a direct measure of a software engineering product? *
a. lines of code produced
b. defects reported over some period of time
c. reliability
d. execution speed
7. If we do not measure things, there is no real way to determine whether we are improving. *
8. Which of the following provide useful measures of software quality? *
a. correctness, cost, integrity, usability
b. reliability, maintainability, integrity, sales
c. correctness, maintainability, size, satisfaction
d. correctness, maintainability, integrity, usability
9. DRE is a measure of the effort required to remove defects from the software being developed. *
10. The software metrics chosen by an organization should be independent of particular business or technical goals an organization wishes to accomplish. *