[Year 12 SofDev] SD Exam - Question C1c and AQ2

Fri Nov 16 23:07:02 EST 2007

Close enough...

http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/vceit/postmortems/2007ita/index.htm

Kevin Feely wrote:
> Hi
> Thanks - i concede - oh and BTW could anyone post, fax, scan-email me a 
> copy of the Applications exam?
> kev
> 
> 
> Selina Dennis wrote:
>> I have to disagree with WikiPedia. While I can see the concept of
>> "implementation" could contain all of the development, testing and
>> deployment, and hence mean "implementation of the entire design", in most
>> software development projects/life cycles, the implementation process 
>> occurs
>> after testing - hence, is synonymous with deployment. However, I do 
>> concede
>> the point that the question was slightly ambiguous, and some students 
>> could
>> have read coding as 'implementation'.
>>
>> If you go by the SoftDev study design, the SDLC is ADDTDIE. Hence, 
>> students
>> would need to separate implementation from development and place it in a
>> position that relates to 'deployment'. As "coding" isn't part of the
>> acronym, students would be incorrect in selecting C as the "best" answer.
>> That's not to say it's not a valid answer, but it's not the best 
>> according
>> to the glossary they are (unfortunately) meant to know by rote.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Selina Dennis
>> Strathmore Secondary College
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au 
>> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>> On Behalf Of Kevin Feely
>> Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 1:32 PM
>> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] SD Exam - Question C1c and AQ2
>>
>> Hi Selina,
>>
>> Implementation (or coding) </wiki/Implementation>     Reducing a 
>> design to code may be the most obvious part of the
>>     software engineering job, but it is not necessarily the largest
>>     portion.
>> taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process
>> regards
>> kev
>>
>> Selina Dennis wrote:
>>  
>>> Implementing is releasing completed code for use - ie: deployment. 
>>> Coding
>>>     
>> is
>>  
>>> development.
>>>
>>> Selina Dennis
>>> Strathmore Secondary College
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
>>>     
>> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>>  
>>> On Behalf Of Kevin Feely
>>> Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 9:38 AM
>>> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] SD Exam - Question C1c and AQ2
>>>
>>> Hi mark
>>> Yep, happy with that, but during the year have let my kids "define" 
>>> the system so they  decide what is inside and outside, but generally 
>>> i have set rules that what belongs inside must be "processors" - they 
>>> have a role to play in taking input and doing something with it. A 
>>> secretary "files" reports or the workshop manager "calculates" hours 
>>> worked etc. Rodneys Real Estate - a question on DFD's in a reference 
>>> book is a classic where you can get quite a few different results - 
>>> but all justifiably correct.
>>>
>>> Also i have a query on AQ2 program development life cycle - i assume 
>>> B is correct, while D and A can quickly be eliminated - no operating 
>>> or solving in key cycle terms. BUT i also regard coding and 
>>> implementing  as interchangeable terms ( a view backed up with a 
>>> quick google) so then C also fits.
>>> It would be hard to argue it is WRONG I think
>>>
>>> kev
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Kelly wrote:
>>>      
>>>> I have been independently informed by a reliable source that:
>>>>
>>>> 'They provide data to the 'system' rather then process the data so 
>>>> they would be considered entities rather the part of the system.'
>>>>
>>>> Well, bounce on my ballpoint and call me Renaldo.  I've never heard 
>>>> of that condition before.  DFDs seem to be an ever-deepening well of 
>>>> intrigue!
>>>>
>>>> I wonder how many students will get that one right. Bother! I must 
>>>> have missed a memo somewhere...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, <Mystery advisor>
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
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