The Evolution Process - Change Proposals and Activities

What Drives System Evolution

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What formally or informally drives system evolution in all organizations?

A fixed schedule unrelated to any actual business or user need

Mandatory annual software audits required by law

System change proposals suggesting changes and updates to an existing system

Random selection of features to remove from the system each year

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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.

Existing requirements that have not yet been implemented in the released system

A requirement that the team randomly rewrite working code for no functional reason

Bug reports from system stakeholders

Requests for entirely new requirements

New ideas for software improvement from the development team

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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?

Analysis of the software to work out which components need to be changed, allowing cost and impact to be assessed

A full rewrite of the entire system to test feasibility

An analysis of competitor marketing materials only

A formal vote among all software users worldwide

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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?

A process that requires complete suspension of all customer feedback

An entirely separate discipline requiring different programming languages

Simply an iteration of the development process, where revisions are designed, implemented, and tested

A purely manual process with no design or testing activities

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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?

Program understanding, where the new team has to learn how the program is structured and how it delivers functionality

A formal legal review of the original development contract

Re-writing the entire codebase from scratch before any changes are made

Hiring a completely new quality assurance department

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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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False

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What Drives System Evolution

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Sources of Change Proposals

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Change Identification and Evolution Cycle

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Purpose of Pre-Acceptance Analysis

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Four Fundamental Activities in the Evolution Process

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Categories Considered During Release Planning

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Difference When Development and Evolution Are Integrated

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Program Understanding in Separate-Team Evolution

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Updating Documentation During Change

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