The Evolution Process - Change Proposals and Activities

How change proposals drive evolution, the change identification/evolution cycle, and the core activities: impact analysis, release planning, implementation, and release.

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What Drives System Evolution

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What formally or informally drives system evolution in all organizations?

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Sources of Change Proposals

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Which of the following can be valid sources of a change proposal for an existing software system? Select all that apply.

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Change Identification and Evolution Cycle

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Sort the four stages of the cyclical change identification and evolution process in the correct order, starting from a new system being deployed.

Change proposals are reviewed and prioritized
The software evolution process implements the accepted changes
Software evolution process produces a new system
Change identification process generates change proposals
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Purpose of Pre-Acceptance Analysis

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Before a change proposal is accepted, what analysis must be carried out?

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Four Fundamental Activities in the Evolution Process

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Sort the four fundamental activities of the general software evolution process in the order they typically occur.

Change analysis (impact analysis)
Release planning
System implementation
Releasing the system to customers
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Categories Considered During Release Planning

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During release planning, which three categories of proposed change are typically considered together when deciding what goes into the next version?

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Considered in release planning
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Not part of release planning
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Difference When Development and Evolution Are Integrated

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When development and evolution are integrated within the same team, what does change implementation essentially become?

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Program Understanding in Separate-Team Evolution

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When a different team is responsible for evolution than the team that built the original system, what additional activity becomes the critical first stage of change implementation?

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Updating Documentation During Change

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True or False: If requirements specification and design documents are available, they should be updated during the evolution process to reflect the changes that have been implemented.

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